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by ein0p 828 days ago
“Nobody” is an overstatement. I find the software that is confined and that I can cleanly uninstall pretty valuable. There might be problems with Canonical, but if a gnarly package is available in both APT and Snap, there’s no question as to which one I’d prefer.
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solid_fuel 828 days ago
Personally I would prefer the tool that allows me to choose when updates will be applied, regardless of the level of isolation. It does look like snapd now finally allows automatic updates to be disabled, as of version 2.58 (so Jan 2023), but it always left a really bad taste in my mouth that the ability to control what gets updated and when was kept out of user control for so long.
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ein0p 828 days ago
Yeah that’s an issue for some users. But the vast majority of packages are available on apt as well, so you don’t have to use it for packages where this is critical.
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adhamsalama 828 days ago
The problem is that Ubuntu hijacks some "apt install" commands and converts them to "snap install".
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hedora 828 days ago
Another problem is that many packages have been sitting waiting for critical bug fixes for months. I'm not sure what their focus is, but they really aren't particularly suitable for use as a desktop or server OS.

A third problem is that the quality of the .deb's they package is low and decreasing rapidly. For instance, they don't seem to understand how to properly configure update-alternatives anymore.

I'm guessing all the above can be explained by establishing hiring bars that aren't good predictors of job performance, and then letting it play out for a decade or so.

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wkat4242 826 days ago
> Another problem is that many packages have been sitting waiting for critical bug fixes for months. I'm not sure what their focus is, but they really aren't particularly suitable for use as a desktop or server OS.

This is something that bothers me with all the containerisation yes.

If there is a big vulnerability in libssl found now, you just update your distro once and boom, everything that uses openssl is fixed.

Now with all these snaps you have to wait for every maintainer to incorporate the update in their package when they feel like it. It's a mess.

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solarkraft 828 days ago
Like Chromium?
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loloquwowndueo 827 days ago
Gnarly like this? “Steals your crypto wallet” but the snap is marked as “safe”. https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/
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