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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Gargari@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

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?

Update: fixed typos

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[–] Raphael@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmmm, can we just sticky a "snaps are bad" thread? I like to see activity but this same question keeps getting asked.

Also sticky Red Hat's "response", it should deter most of the neolibs.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

On a less philosophical note, I find it immensely annoying how Snap creates mounts for its apps bc of how it clutters up disk management tools

[–] panilithium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Some of the things that have already been mentioned are true also for me, especially around permissions and assumptions about my system's setup. However what really did it for me was when Firefox stopped recognizing my keyboard after a snap refresh. It's just as if no input device was there for FF anymore. I found reports of the issue, but no solution. In the end I installed from a DEB repository and went through the shenanigans to prevent snap from reinstalling it.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly it has to do with how Canonical owns the snap store. if they made it so anyone could build a snap repo then a lot fewer peopl would have problems

[–] mpiepgrass@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Because people still believe in one standard to rule them all.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

On a less philosophical note, I find it immensely annoying how Snap creates mounts for its apps bc of how it clutters up disk management tools

[–] Janis@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago

its a scam.

there was this jerk working as an intern at red hat. lennart. he made the decision to break the linux dogma: do one thing and do it good. systemd was born. red hat drools. an important step towarda ending open-ness. later snaps. later closing red hat stream. profit.

if you use systemd or snaps you could just fast forward and use apple.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because I can't dismiss the Firefox update notification, no matter how many times I update it.

I've had to reboot every time.

Which, way to go you've reimplemented windows xp era updates.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop the app and run "snap refresh" and it should update anything that's queued

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yes, I did kill the process and update the image though snap.

this did nothing to remove the update notification that cannot be dismissed without rebooting.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, weird. The notification itself disappeared for me when I click it (KDE)

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

maybe they fixed it, I switched to Debian over a year ago.

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