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Ubuntu Snap Hate
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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Imma be honest. I never used Snap. I had left ubuntu long before they started rolling it out.
That said, hearing they redirect apt calls to snap instead feels -- A bit too microsofty for my tastes
Like, when you use a flatpak (or even a snap!) in a non-ubuntu distro, you're not forced to use it. And if the same package exists on both the repo and on flatpak/snap, you CAN choose to get it from any of the three sources. Forcing people into snap is weird and scummy.
I have heard that snap is slower than flatpak, but also that it can do some stuff flatpak cannot, but again, didn't test enough to know it.
I also haven't been with an Ubuntu based distro for awhile, but I've got a lot of affection for Canonical generally. I even accepted the idea of the amazon-in the-dash-thing (which had a lot of folks sharpening pitchforks some years back) as being kind of an honest mistake - so excited that they could that they didn't consider if they should, sort of.
But yeah, that's exactly what it feels like with snaps, and for that specific reason.