Screenshot doesn’t even show half.
This is an interesting way to show your fstab
😂
Ya, I think I goofed on my terminology XD
I don’t like snaps, but dude… Do you even know what fstab is?
IIRC, it is a C runtime function that stabs a file.
Ya, I think I goofed on my terminology XD
It’s ok, bro.
Don’t use it - vote with your feet :)
Switching to Gentoo has been the best. If I don’t want something I just blacklist it in my make.conf. getting errors from an odd package? Blacklist. Don’t want systemd or gnome software? Blacklist. It’s great. My shit runs insanely fast and my system only breaks when I explicitly do something stupid, and it’s usually just one minor adjustment away from getting fixed.
Sigh, I was a sysadmin on my own system from 1999-2008 and on a busy server from 2008-2012… then essentially quit. Now with flatpak and snaps it seems I have no idea what I am doing.
Flatpaks aren’t very relevant for servers if I am not wrong but Canonical definitely tties to push Snaps for that usecase, I feel like other container technologies like Docker or Podman are a lot more relevant in that context and containerization in general is really nice especially for server use and not that hard to wrap your head around! ;)
On the plus side, snaps also crap your system log full of petty little AppArmor events. And when snap gets its permissions wrong, you can easily fix it with SnapSeal.
(If Flatpak would just fucking stop rewriting every file path as /var/run/1000/blah, it would be the unquestionably superior package tech)
Friction between Snap and AppArmor is to be expected. The corporate sponsor of Snap, Canonical, is well known for their icy relationship with the corporate sponsor of AppArmor, Canonical.
I take the unconditional and mandatory creation of
~/snapas a middle finger to all users. Fuck snapWhy what’s wrong with that? Is it just that it looks bad or is there a performance issue to.
Try it in enterprise where you have automated systems that deploy alert sensors and they instantly go off because each mount is 100% full.
Pretty much every alerting system I know also has a filter option to only apply automated discovery rules to certain filesystem types.
But yes, most don’t first squashfs or mounted read-only snapshots by default and it sucks.
They also kill performance if you’re still using a hard drive as your system drive. I know we should all be using SSDs, it’s 2023, but sometimes it’s not always possible
Thankfully the OS/app drive is an SSD. The rest are spinners though. Just for low bandwidth storage.
Leave ubuntu behind. Their snap fixation is toxic.
In my case I hate that I’ll be watching a movie or tv show using Kodi on my HTPC and I’ll get a bunch of “drive removed” “drive added” notification popups and sounds when snap auto updates. I’ve looked around to see what might be updating and I swear it’s always something stupid like gnome-calculator. Like who TF cares…
Why I hate snaps/flatpak:
- 1
- package/appimage ~80mb
- snap/flatpak >500mb
- 2
- p/a - app + dependencies
- s/f - app + minimal linux distribution
- 3
- p/a - can be easily run from terminal
- s/f - flatpak run com.very.easy.to.remember.and.type.name
Appimage literally requires more storage for the apps because it dublicates all dependencies so in terms of storage flatpak and dnaps win by FAR, there are valid reasons to criticize all three but your comment is a sad joke!
snap/flatpak >500mb
Don’t know about Snap, but Flatpak download sizes decrease significantly after installing the main platform libraries, they can become really small; of course that’s pretty much fully negated if you’re installing Electron apps, but even then 500MB isn’t very accurate, more like 150MB on average
flatpak run com.very.easy.to.remember.and.type.name
Yes I hate it, what is even more annoying is that you can do
flatpak install someappand it will search matches on its own, it shows them to you to let you decide, but after that you can’t doflatpak run someappbecause it “doesn’t exist”Last one could easily be fixed tho
Runtimes are okay, the problem is there is no runtime package manager and often you have like 7 of them, which is horrible. But on modern hard drives also no problem.
Appimages cant be easily ran from terminal, you need to link then to your Path.
For Flatpak I made a tool that aliases their launch commands to be very easy.
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That’s why I moved to fedora recently…didn’t like to see 30 or so mounted filesystems every time I did an fdisk -l to mount some disk
Luckily Debian is upstream of Ubuntu.
thats why i prefer/like flatpak
