OK I am more of a baby Penguin here, why do people hate Snap and Flatpack?
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Snap made me switch back to Debian. Ubuntu was awesome for a long time, but having snap glommed onto everything so much that it kept showing up on my headless boxes was too much.
Flatpak ftw!
laughs in AUR
btw
At least we have Mint and Kubuntu
Kubuntu removed Flatpaks in favour of Snaps
Mint for the win! I really hope they make LMDE the main branch in the longer term.
df -h hates this one simple trick
I want to be high and mighty and dislike Snaps for all the technical reasons but the single most irritating thing is definitely all the loopback devices.
Followed closely by ~/snap
WHY NOT .SNAP?? IT'S ONE FCKING DOT
I haven't had any issues with the few snaps I use so far
I haven't had any issues with the few snaps I use so far
My grandpa used to say something like the idea that he never had problems with the 'few' times he drove home drunk so far. Then he ran someone over.
It's better to understand something is an avoidable risk BEFORE you're shown graphically.
Yes, snaps are just like manslaughter
Me reacting to analogies with "Did you know these two things are not completely identical?", completely unburdened by the knowledge that I'm supposed to explain how the differences invalidate the comparison.
Driving drunk is factually stupid
Snaps are not
It's a bad analogy
I'd argue it's pretty stupid to use FOSS but then depend on a proprietary server that only one for-profit company is allowed to run to deliver all that software, trusting them to just never do wrong or leave you high and dry. I'd also argue it fits the analogy perfectly, because the analogy was about saying "I haven't had a problem yet" in response to being shown the potential problems of the action.
But the problem with snaps is an opinion. If Canonical goes bonkers I'll just go use something else. Until then I don't have any issues with them using proprietary software within their own ecosystem.
It's not an opinion that proprietary for-profit software will betray you, it is an inevitability. It has happened every single time. If it was FOSS, we could salvage it. It's proprietary, so we can't. When it fails it must simply be abandoned. I just hope you learn the right lesson when this happens.
Winrar
WinRAR will either die, or be sold and squeezed by its new owners. Nobody lives forever and no asset goes unflipped in this market. You can say you won't update, but that just leaves you vulnerable.
Lasted longer than a lot of foss projects lol
If I were to list every FOSS project that has lasted longer, I'd have to spend all day writing the post. winRAR is unique in that it's one of the only pieces of long-lasting proprietary software that didn't die or turn to crap. Such things are not unique or even rare in FOSS.