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anti-snap stance is anti-consumer (lemdro.id)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/9650372

The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Here’s the original comment: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112591863166141029

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why are you reposting this? And to the same instance?

And, again, why didn't you bother to follow the thread of that comment? Quoting shit out of context is disingenuous.

https://mastodon.social/@popey/112593520847827981

Sure. Other people can do that if they want.

I don't have a problem with companies bundling whatever packages they want on their distro.

The difference comes when they actively block installation (just like Mint does). That is what is anti-consumer. It adds confusion to users as they have to go and find out what random file in /etc/ needs to be edited or removed, just to install some software. It's stupid.

You may disagree, that's fine. It's okay to not like things.

Btw i dislike Ubuntu in general and snaps in particular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The initial post was on [email protected] and I cross posted to [email protected]
I have been following the thread on Mastodon but wanted the opinion of others (on Lemmy). I engaged with the OP to try and understand their perspective on this as well.