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OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12 (bits.debian.org)

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[–] RubberElectrons 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, those haven't been an issue for me. I actually like that the snaps include apparmor profiles which I used to have to write myself to constrain what in my homedir an app could access.

Performance, however, is changing over time in ways I've never seen before, besides strange hardware hiccups that don't seem to be logged anywhere. Why does my wifi keep asking for a password at random? What's up with the weird display behavior when resuming on one vs two monitors? Etc. I figure it's about time to see what else is out there after almost a decade on Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I moved two servers from Ubuntu to Debian after Bookworm released, and the graphs on my management server were interesting. Suddenly running 30% fewer background daemons and much less memory usage with the same workload.

If snapd was pulling from an open-source backend it wouldn't be as concerning for me on a desktop. I still might prefer flatpak, but as you say, there are conveniences. My laptops and desktops are on openSUSE and Fedora to have more up to date software in the repos than Debian.

But for a server I see no need for snaps at all. And yes, it's not difficult to remove snapd, but why bother when I can just run Debian. If I wanted a support contract from Canonical then it might be worth messing with it. But I'm just selfhosting at home.