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by addicted 1881 days ago
For me, not being forced into snaps, which for many apps that are forced upon us through snaps makes them remarkably slow, is enough reason to pick Fedora over Ubuntu for a fresh install.

But whether it’s a good enough reason to switch an existing system depends on how much trouble one is having with these issues in their current system.
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grawprog 1881 days ago
Is snap actually being forced on users by Ubuntu? I've used a Ubuntu based os for years, the only snap packages i have are third-party ones directly from the app devs themselves, ubuntu's never forced me to use snap...
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rubyist5eva 1881 days ago
> Is snap actually being forced on users by Ubuntu?

Chromium is a snap in Ubuntu now for a while, even if you install it with apt it just installs the snap.

Canonical wants to deliver the entire OS via snap in the future, and is already partially there on the server with Ubuntu Core and they recently announced an Ubuntu Core Desktop is coming soon.

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mixmastamyk 1881 days ago
Yes, it is installed, running a daemon, and spamming mounts and filesystems (~/snap, /snap, etc) at boot up. Well known packages such as chromium convert themselves to snap without warning or permission, then proceed to load a lot slower because they have to be extracted from an image into memory.

Snap is not discrete in any sense of the word.

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