The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

EDIT:

Here’s the original comment: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112591863166141029

EDIT 2:

Some clarification for those accusing me of not following the thread or being disingenuous.

Didn’t bother to follow the thread?

https://mastodon.social/@popey/112593520847827981

I posted my question here before this particular response from the OP. I asked the question on Lemmy out of interest and wanting to get a wider perspective. I also engaged with the OP on the thread so that I can get their perspective on their stance.

  • @[email protected]
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    486 months ago

    Type this:

    apt install firefox

    Into your terminal on Ubuntu and you’ll see what is anti-customer.

    • @sailingbythelee
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      116 months ago

      Yup. I had no problem with snaps or Ubuntu until I saw that underhanded bullshit.

      • Possibly linux
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        56 months ago

        I feel like they shot themselves in the knee. Even if it was buggy I would of still tried to use it for fun. However, when they first came out I found out about them because it caused me to be unable to work. I used apt to install a CLI tool and then the CLI tool wasn’t working. I tried to manually get it from the Ubuntu repo only to discover it was snap only.

        It really pissed me off.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      I switched to Debian, partly because of snaps, what exactly is going on here with Ubuntu?

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        You can install Firefox only as a snap on Ubuntu. There’s no native package on the official repo.