ikidd@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMy reaction when I find out Ubuntu is only going to use Snapsi.imgur.comvideomessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down11
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minus-squareIronChe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoCould someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?
minus-squared_k_bo@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThere are better solutions for everything it does/tries to do: Flatpak for desktop applications docker/podman/LXC/… for server software apt/dnf/pacman/… for system utilities
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSlow startup time, doesn’t honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
minus-squareMonologue@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agosnap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don’t like the slow start up times
minus-squarezemja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt automatically updates the software you’ve installed, and there’s no way to turn that off. That’s why I personally hate it.
Could someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?
There are better solutions for everything it does/tries to do:
Slow startup time, doesn’t honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don’t like the slow start up times
It automatically updates the software you’ve installed, and there’s no way to turn that off. That’s why I personally hate it.