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
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I really hope mainline Mint goes full Debian soon. Ubuntu is just an embarrassment at this point.
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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
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Yeah they are, just go debian, it's ubuntu before they went full Hodor.
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Debian 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?
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Slow startup time, doesn't honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
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snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don't like the slow start up times
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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
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It automatically updates the software you've installed, and there's no way to turn that off. That's why I personally hate it.
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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.
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The first inline video I saw on Lemmy. Nice!
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