• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    snaps (and the way canonical is pushing them) are awful at best. snaps are the one reason ive been meaning to hop right now, but its not the first time canonical pulls shit like this.

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      Snaps can sandbox system applications, with no competitor capable in sight. So what is this shit Canonical is pulling?

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        a) having apt packages link a script that downloads the snap. That’s the first problem I had, back when I used Ubuntu as as snaps were rolling out. It gave me big trouble updating on bad internet connection.

        b) making the server fixed and proprietary, restricting the freedom to do things differently and offer different changes to other users, that we’re used to in the Linux and FOSS world

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        6 months ago

        in addition to what the guy said:

        how it doesnt respect standards like XDG, and how painfully slow it is.

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            6 months ago

            not at all. speaking as someone who replaced snaps for flatpaks because this specific issue was bothering me a lot.

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              I was using Snaps until last year just to know how they are doing. Snaps did not feel much slower. However, I felt like I became mature enough to use Debian, so jumped ship.