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My reaction when I find out Ubuntu is only going to use Snaps (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ikidd to c/linuxmemes
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[–] IronChe 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Could someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?

[–] puppy 21 points 1 year ago

Slow startup time, doesn't honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don't like the slow start up times

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It automatically updates the software you've installed, and there's no way to turn that off. That's why I personally hate it.

[–] iwasgodonce 6 points 1 year ago

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.