Everyone loves snaps

Flatpak ftw!

laughs in AUR

df -h hates this one simple trick

Snap made me switch back to Debian. Ubuntu was awesome for a long time, but having snap glommed onto everything so much that it kept showing up on my headless boxes was too much.

At least we have Mint and Kubuntu

Greybeard here. I don't know what a snap is.

I can't even use my smart card because Ubuntu keeps trying to install the snap version of Firefox which can't access the hardware. Why does it keep swapping out every time I update releases? Why won't it let me be happy?! /cry

OK I am more of a baby Penguin here, why do people hate Snap and Flatpack?

Just a few days ago I wrestled with the overzealous sandboxing and security of the Chromium snap. Had to get a Flatpak and even then had to use some flags to get the proper permissions enabled. Next time I do a refresh I'm going with Debian.

I am a Linux user for over a decade but I have no idea what this discussion is about. Can someone give me a tldr? I install some software using apt and some using the store and never have any issues.

I get all the reasons why people hate snaps, and I think they're all valid. And I appreciate people looking out for others and warning them about problematic software.

But man am I lazy, and I was really happy I didn't need to set up Docker just to run Sonarr on Bazzite. I'm pretty new to Linux, and that looked like a whole intimidating process.

I haven't had any issues with the few snaps I use so far

Has the meaning of this template changed? Like isn't the pink guy supposed to be a thing supporting the white dude so they can accomplish a goal they couldn't have done alone?

For example, the pink guy could be "Debian", the white person "Ubuntu", and the yellow goal "Being an awesome distribution".

I like snaps.