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Why is snaps hated (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it's NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

Technical

Slow startup time
Makes lsblk look really ugly
For awhile users didn't have a lot of control over when things updated
Not designed to work with third party repos by default
Requires apparmor so it doesn't work well on selinux distros.

Philosophical

Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren't Ubuntu
Some people just don't like Ubuntu

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Canonical is pushing it too aggressively, removing the freedom of choice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also:

Creates a snap directory on your home. I hate programs that pollute my home.
Requires a service (snapd) to function.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not only does it create that directory but it creates new folders for each updated version of various apps... Very weird and confusing