minus-squaretiny@midwest.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why is snaps hatedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThere 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 linkfedilink
There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps
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