I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?
Update: fixed typos
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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
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Also:
- Creates a snap directory on your home. I hate programs that pollute my home.
- Requires a service (snapd) to function.
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