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I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project (slrpnk.net)
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[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 118 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not that successful if the userbase hates it and would rather use a competitor.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

For me it was a successful deterrent. Debian bookworm has been wonderful.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah I love it, Debian feels like opening a featureless gray box that just says "OS" on the front. Add whatever you want. A blank canvas. It's as close to "generic" Linux as you can get.

[-] Whayle@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

I installed mint on my second PC, and it's great. I feel like migrating my main, but I'm not sure it would go smoothly. I've had a lot of issues with my four months old Ubuntu install, lately the keyboard is nonfunctional at the login screen about half the time. Snaps are another reason making me want to leave it behind.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 96 points 6 months ago

I don't mind Snaps in a vacuum, but the unforgivable thing is that they messed with the package repo so that instead of installing a deb package as I intended, it installs a Snap stub which I did not want. If Canonical hadn't forced them on users in that way, I'd have been fine with them.

Instead, back to Debian I went (sorry I ever left, actually)

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean I used to used to use Ubuntu for my server now I use Debian cos fuck snaps.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago

Ow! My brain!

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

So I didn't realize that the snaps logo is an origami bird.

"It was like a piece of self-opening origami, or a rosebud blooming into a rose in just a few seconds. Where just a few moments earlier there had been a smoothly curved black disk, there was now a bird. A bird, hovering there." - Douglas Adams, describing the Hitchhiker's Guide, Mk. II, from Mostly Harmless.

A bit on the nose there, Canonical.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Same, I used to always pick Ubuntu to spin up servers. Now I pick it never.

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

successful project

That is a very biased claim. It's like saying that the PS5 is the most successful gaming platform because God Of War: Ragnarök and Ghost Of Tsushima players prefer it over Xbox and PC.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

It’s not successful though. Like, maybe if your measure of success is that it’s usable, sure. But no other OSes have adopted it. Not even Ubuntu’s downstream OSes like Mint or Pop_OS!.

Users don’t like it, vendors don’t like it, other OS maintainers don’t like it. I’m not sure why that would be considered successful.

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[-] gencha@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago

If you don't like snaps, don't use the distribution by the company who tries to establish them.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

And also warn newcomers not to invest time into those distros.

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[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

They also called unity successful at some point

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 25 points 6 months ago

Unity was a nice DE. Being on KDE since 12 years, I still miss some of its features, e.g. merging the menu items with the title bar.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, I was pissed when they went away from it. It was great for small screen devices.

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[-] zecg@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

I know why I hate snap, no confusion here.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nix, guix, flatpak, and OSI images are all better "universal" packages managers on sheer technical merits while also not be a vendor locked proprietary solution.

Snaps are worse than what Redhat is doing.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Sheer* probably. Unless there a technical merit about cutting stuff.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 months ago

"Successful"

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

snaps are a proprietary vendor-locked format, the only redeeming quality is being able to run them in cli (once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).

I just find it midly infuriating (if that even is a thing, meaning I hate it but it's not that significant for me to distro hop on my work laptop) to have two "universal" package formats on my system with Canonical shoving the objectively worse one (from a free/libre pov) down my throat...

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 months ago

Former Unix security chief.

Do not use snaps. Risky as hell.

[-] ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Why? I've heard this for years at this point, but as someone who rarely uses snaps because they're the only convenient option for software I'm using, I'm generally ambivalent about them.

People seem to hold really strong opinions about snap but I've never been able to get a straight answer, just a bunch of hand waving.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago

The one app I can't stand as a snap is firefox, it took a minute to navigate to the first webpage every time I start up. The rest are or more less fine I think, but flatpak meets my needs for most other applications.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

Also command line tools are terrible as snaps. And the worst part is you have no idea why they won't work. It doesn't tell you that snap is the problem. It just doesn't work.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It look me about two hours to realize that snap was the problem when I was trying to run Mastodon in a Docker container. That was the last straw before I moved to Fedora.

Snap can’t read anything outside of the /home directory, and there’s no way to fix that except changing the source code and recompiling it.

[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

I'd be curious to see some statistics on how many Ubuntu users removed snaps vs how many haven't changed the default.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 33 points 6 months ago

I’d bet most ubuntu user don’t know the difference between snap and deb, tho.

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

I didn't until apps started breaking. The snap version of steam, Firefox, and Unity (I think?) all started to have issues. When I googled around people would often ask "deb or snap"? I uninstalled the snap packages and installed the deb packages and most of my issues went away.

I ultimately switched to Linux Mint because I kept having stability issues and I was just desperate for a solution. But snap was not a great experience for me.

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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 9 points 6 months ago

Exactly, wouldn't most of the people who really care already have moved on from Ubuntu?

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[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Upstart and Unity are waiting for you.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Don’t forget Mir!

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[-] Mio@feddit.nu 15 points 6 months ago

When Mozilla provide the firefox deb package - Why not give it then? IMO snaps/flatpacks are slower to start, can't be updated while running, takes more diskspace, and takes longer time to update. With the isolation we also have different kind of problems - have you given it the correct permission?, and how do you get keepassxc browser extension to work with it(they dont support it)?

[-] picnic@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

So, I used ubuntu for pretty close to 20 years and it was my go to distro. I have had hundreds upon hundreds of servers running ubuntu.

Last few years I've been moving away from ubuntu because of their lack of respect for their core users. They have no clear vision and when they do, its a magnificently shitty one like the donkey balls decision to enfrorce snap on everything.

I will still have some ubuntu servers to take care of, but every new server I set up will be fedora.

Because fuck snaps, thats why

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I had like 4 snaps installed in my system and it was hogging like 60Gb of storage. What the actual fuck.

I wish I kept the names of the dependencies, I just ran a command to remove all snaps and the snap itself.

Am I talking bullshit here? I saw my disk drop 60gb after I did that but I have no evidence.

[-] krippix@feddit.de 14 points 6 months ago

snap (especially firefox beeing one) made me an arch user

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

snap is OK vs compiling stuff.

But it is bullshit that they "snapped" things like Firefox, which has a repo with .debs

Edit: typo

[-] jaromil@fed.dyne.org 10 points 6 months ago

why depict RMS this way

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

They forgot the halo.

[-] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 6 months ago

I hate having several package managers coexisting on my computer, and the only advantage of snap is that it solves a problem I've never encountered in 25 years.

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Personally, I use Debian and gravitate towards flat paks, but I'm starting to question whether this is just one of those hills Linux users arbitrarily choose to die on a la systemd/wayland? I suppose one of the advantages of an opinionated OS is a vast array of opinions

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago

It's much worse.

The snap store is proprietary.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago

"But the Calamares versions have an install option without Snaps"

Well that also doesnt have a webbrowser and will install snaps the second you want one

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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I hate snaps, but NextCloud snap is way easier to than the other methods, so it gets a pass... Only one

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