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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.

  • HyperHysteria@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Do people really have this much gripe with the Snaps? I don’t even touch them and am only reminded they exist when people complain about them. Is there any actual downside to just ignoring installing Snaps and instead installing packages manually anyways?

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      1 year ago

      for me it stopped being fun when firefox couldn’t access certain OS features or usb keys because they hadn’t specifically coded that one in. and I could only wait for a patch.

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      1 year ago

      For me it’s a case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. I don’t get the point of switching to snaps when apt packages worked perfectly fine.

      And in my experience it’s actually worse than APT. Installs/updates are slow, as is app startup, system integration features need extra work, …