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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish62•11 months agoUbuntu.It’ went from a great beginner distro to a dumpster fire filled with snaps and telemetry.
minus-square@first_must_burnlink3•11 months agoSerious question: what do you not like about snaps? I find the isolation and dependency desolation to be pretty great.
minus-square@AProfessionallinkEnglish11•11 months agoSnap is vendor lock in. They don’t work on many distros, tooling pushes their platform, and they control the only store. For desktop apps Flatpak is just technically better anyway so what’s the point.
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoSnap is the reason I started looking for something else. Flatpak is the reason I went Fedora. It’s been great.
minus-squarevaidooryamlinkfedilink1•11 months ago@first_must_burn @Lolors17 many hate it being forced onto users. I recently went to install microk8 on my dev machine but chose not to seeing it was primarily via snap.
Ubuntu.It’ went from a great beginner distro to a dumpster fire filled with snaps and telemetry.
Serious question: what do you not like about snaps? I find the isolation and dependency desolation to be pretty great.
Snap is vendor lock in. They don’t work on many distros, tooling pushes their platform, and they control the only store.
For desktop apps Flatpak is just technically better anyway so what’s the point.
Snap is the reason I started looking for something else. Flatpak is the reason I went Fedora. It’s been great.
@first_must_burn @Lolors17 many hate it being forced onto users. I recently went to install microk8 on my dev machine but chose not to seeing it was primarily via snap.