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Why is snaps hated (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it's NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

tldr;

canonical ...

keepes the snap store closed source and all snap packages and distribution under their control
"silently" replaces packages (like firefox) with their snap versions
will completly remove support for alternatives (like flatpak)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They don't respect your setting on OS version updates either.

I was running 22.04 with the firefox ppa, but the minute i shifted from 22.04 lts to 22.10, they reinstalled the firefox snap and a bunch of new ones as well. Ive purged them all again, but it looks like every update will bw this same fight. I ahoulsnt have to write an ansible playbook to fight my OS vendor.

Debain 12 with flatpac to fill the gaps is looking better and better by the day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They don't respect your setting on OS version updates

I was running 22.04 with the firefox ppa, but the minute i shifted from 22.04 lts to 22.10, they reinstalled the firefox snap and a bunch of new ones as well.

Seems like canonical wants to be the only software distributor for their OS. Wouldn't suprise me if they completely disabled the option to install other repos and DEB packages soon.

Debain 12 with flatpac to fill the gaps is looking better and better by the day.

agreed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there an article posted here that the next ubuntu update won't have deb support at first and it'll come later? 100% chance they decide to be an immutable snap-based distro in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Disrespecting preferences, having to fight the OS.... hm, where have I heard that before? 🤔