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  • tiny@midwest.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy is snaps hated
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    1 year ago

    There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

    Technical

    • Slow startup time
    • Makes lsblk look really ugly
    • For awhile users didn’t have a lot of control over when things updated
    • Not designed to work with third party repos by default
    • Requires apparmor so it doesn’t work well on selinux distros.

    Philosophical

    • Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
    • Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren’t Ubuntu
    • Some people just don’t like Ubuntu