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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] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

because the snap folder in your home directory by default starts with a lowercase letter while all the other folders start with uppercase (hidden folders don't count)

all other reasons are secondary

[–] SillyBanana 5 points 1 year ago

This is such a stupid minor thing, but it's what made me switch from Ubuntu to Fedora, haha.

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

Downloads and Documents starting with a capital letter is my biggest pet peeve with Ubuntu. It makes it a lot more annoying to navigate through them than if it was all lower case.