• @IronChe
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    112 years ago

    Could someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?

    • @puppy
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      212 years ago

      Slow startup time, doesn’t honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don’t like the slow start up times

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      There 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
    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      It automatically updates the software you’ve installed, and there’s no way to turn that off. That’s why I personally hate it.

    • @iwasgodonce
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      62 years ago

      One thing really annoying for me, there’s only the 1 official “store” you can use and it doesn’t support ipv6.

      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6 says it’s been available for apt since march 12th 2013.