My reaction when I find out Ubuntu is only going to use Snaps
My reaction when I find out Ubuntu is only going to use Snaps
I really hope mainline Mint goes full Debian soon. Ubuntu is just an embarrassment at this point.
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7Simply based ;)
2You’re right! Edited.
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Wait is this true? They can’t be replacing apt with snaps all the way… I’ve been using Ubuntu for a decade plus and this would force me to switch
16Yeah they are, just go debian, it's ubuntu before they went full Hodor.
12Debian also got a lot quicker with updates. They are not as "oldschool" as they've been a few years ago with the packages being always years behind. They still have the Debian way of thinking (tested > on the edge) but it's months and not years of waiting for new updates to be implemented in their official sources
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Could someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?
11Slow startup time, doesn't honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
21snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don't like the slow start up times
19There 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
13It automatically updates the software you've installed, and there's no way to turn that off. That's why I personally hate it.
7One 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.
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The first inline video I saw on Lemmy. Nice!
7If I'm not mistaken, it's only on the GUI app store, you will still be able to launch a terminal and install deb from the CLI using apt. I could be wrong as I've read different things from different sources.
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21And the Firefox snap doesn't let me use a card reader. It's infuriating...
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