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[โ€“] Treczoks 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Snap is crap. It has been from the start, and it's only getting worse since then. It basically goes against anything thousands of developers worked for for decades: to save resources by making them shared and reusable.

[โ€“] CrayonRosary -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Drives are huge and computers are so powerful now that it doesn't matter. It used to, but not any more. This philosophy also breaks things when two programs need conflicting versions of a library. Happens all the time.