I spent two hours today trying to figure out why Nextcloud couldn’t read my data directory. Docker wasn’t mounting my data directory. Moved everything into my data directory. Docker couldn’t even see the configuration file.
Turns out the Docker Snap package only has access to files under the /home directory.
Moral of the story: never trust a Snap package.
“PSA: Snap sucks”
FTFY
Friends don’t let friends use Snap.
Proprietary when flatpak exists, and it doesn’t properly address how apps should dynamically request access to things they need. Every time I’ve used either solution I’ve run into some permissions problem.
For desktop apps maybe. How do you run a flatpak from the cli? “flatpak run org.something.Command”. Awesome.
Both suffer from not making it obvious what directories your application can access and not providing a clear message when you try to access files it can’t. The user experience sucks.
I have stopped using Ubuntu because of this and other Canonical nonsense. It used to be the best too. For a workstation, Mint Cinnamon, for a server Debian headless. God speed with the rest of your setup
I also like to run my container platform as a containerized application in another container platform.
Why does Docker has a snap version in the first place anyway? Did Canonical pester them to do it?
Edit:
Nope, it’s just Canonical went ahead and publish it there by themselves.
This snap is built by Canonical based on source code published by Docker, Inc. It is not endorsed or published by Docker, Inc.
It’s also offered as part of the installation process at least for Ubuntu server. If you don’t know better it bites you real quick.
It’s insane how many things they push as Snaps when they are entirely incompatible with the Snap model.
I think everyone first learns what Snaps are by googling “why doesn’t ____ work on Ubuntu?” For me, it was Filebot. Spent an hour or two trying to figure out how the hell to get it to actually, you know, access my files. (This was a few years ago, so maybe things are better now. Not sure. I don’t live that Snap life anymore, and I’m not going back.)
TIL, docker has a snap package, and can’t stop laughing. What’s next? A flatpak or AppImage?
