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i just really hate snap
I always read 'did not finish'
DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM)
These guys at Redhat don’t know how abbreviations work, I guess.
I've been specifically avoiding Ubuntu because of snaps, instead preferring Ubuntu derivatives that don't use it, like Mint and Pop.
And more recently, trying an entirely different approach with Arch.
And yes - I could get rid of snaps in Ubuntu if I wanted. But everything is just a little more annoying when you are going against the conventions of your distro.
It's made even worse by some software pretending to be Ubuntu builds but just quietly installing a Snap version instead.
Looking at you, Firefox. 👀
Switched to EndeavourOS a couple of years ago as my main, and its been amazing. No regrets.
You could try Debian, it's basically Ubuntu without snaps.
More like Ubuntu is Debian with snaps and a CEO
What’s snap? I use LMDE and i don’t think i have that.
It's Canonicals' package manager. A lot of people, myself included, dislike it mostly because the backend is proprietary and it locks the repository to Canonical only. Also given their past history, it may be doing something nefarious.
I just don't see the point of them when there are flatpaks. I'm not super knowledgeable on Snaps so maybe there's some huge benefit I don't know about, but they always just seemed like a worse version of flatpak to me.
The huge benefit (to canonical) is that they control the store/repo.
How exactly is that a benefit?
I should have added a /s.
Canonical controls the back end and that (along with how canonical has treated snaps in Ubuntu pulling them in with apt calls) are two major reasons snaps get (justified) hate
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