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[-] 30p87@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

Wait it's also proprietary in addition to being slower, more annoying and much more intrusive than Flatpaks let alone just native packages? That not only makes it heavily obsolete but is even more against the whole point of Linux than Windows' winget (if the open source community repo is used instead of msstore), as snap is hardcoded to use the closed Servers from Canonical. That's just bad on another level honestly.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah :/ I just found out about it yesterday.

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Snap as a format is not proprietary but Canonical's Snap Store is. And Canonical's Snap Store is basically the only one in existence and (semi?) hard-coded into all the tools.

In any case, on a fresh install I usually throw out all the Snap stuff and go for Flatpak, because for some apps, these two formats tend to be the only options anymore.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Removing snap from Ubuntu, at least, seems to be more impossible with every update as far as I've heard. Apparently it just reinstalls itself if you try to use apt in order to install eg. Firefox and then uses snap for that package. So I'd guess actually disabling snap would mean somehow configuring or editing apt itself or some addon to it. Any way, such a closed design in combination with the tactics Canonical (at least did) use in order to keep snap as a default looks kinda Microsofty to me.
Wann Klage gegen Canonical wegen Monopolstellung?
In Englisch nem Deutschen zu antworten fühlt sich affig an lül

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Removing snap from Ubuntu, at least, seems to be more impossible with every update as far as I’ve heard. Apparently it just reinstalls itself if you try to use apt in order to install eg. Firefox and then uses snap for that package. So I’d guess actually disabling snap would mean somehow configuring or editing apt itself or some addon to it.

Basically you need to have a list of packages to avoid in your head. :) And with every passing release there are more. Great!!

Since I've gone back to using Ubuntu I've managed to avoid these traps somehow.

Wann Klage gegen Canonical wegen Monopolstellung?

While their practices suck, they don't exactly have a monopoly. If they're eventually bought out by MS, something could happen. (So far, MS seems happy (and capable) to do its own thing though.)

In Englisch nem Deutschen zu antworten fühlt sich affig an lül

Yeah, but this is a public thread in an English-language community.

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