One of a number of reasons Ubuntu does not even meet the minimum requirements to tender for a cut of the millions the University I work for invests in Linux systems (research workstations (often packed with NVIDIA GPUs), clients to control specialist equipment, HPC, regular desktops/laptops/servers, network/lustre/backup storage etc).
Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
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Re: Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
#102Can someone explain why I'd use snap or flatpak over the distros repo or manual install for something not in the repo or unavailable via adding a repo? Apart from auto-managed updates. Snap and flatpak are massive compared to "traditional" packages.
Snap is terrible in every sense, so you should never use it in my opinion. As for Flatpak, I'd say use it if you need a more up-to-date version of a piece of desktop software than is in your distro's repository or desktop software that isn't in your distro's repository at all. For example, I use the Firefox flatpak on Fedora to have the most up-to-date version (98.0.2) since the current version of Firefox on Fedora (…
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Re: Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
#103Having observed (well deserved) criticism of both Snap and Flatpak during the years, Flatpak seems to emerge as the most sensible solution, continuously addressing and improving on the pain points and security challenges. I have been using Fedora 34/35 the last year or so, and Flatpaks are well integrated and mostly just works without any performance hit. Being able to adjust permissions per app (with Flatseal) has a…
It’s not even remotely close. Snaps take longer to load, still sometimes have theme issues, you have to manually install Snap on almost all non-Snap distributions, you’ll be littered with garbage mountpoints, you’ll have a useless snap folder in your home directory, you can’t add external repositories of any kind, and you get no ability to stop updates easy without going into duct tape solutions. Snap wants to be a d…
Don't forget odd permissions problems. From memory, ipfs is distributed as a snap. Try saving a file to another location outside of the snap jail. Almost impossible.
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#105Snap developers have refused to rename $HOME/snap to be less visible for nearly as long, they have and are shipping very broken software, all while using update methods that corrupted people's data unannounced until very recently (the update mechanism made data directories non-writable unless you enable some experimental option). They very much do not care about the end-user with Snap, only how to appear attractive t…
It’s not even $HOME/snap, it’s /home/$USER/snap.
https://snapcraft.io/docs/home-outside-home
> The snap daemon (snapd) requires a user’s home directory ($HOME) to be located under /home on the local filesystem. This requirement cannot currently be changed.
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#107I think auto updates are ok but not for everything, client side app are ok to auto update the rest not so much.
No. No they're not OK. Sometimes I am forced to live on eye-wateringly expensive bandwidth (because dodgy rural DSL and trees falling) and I'd go broke letting things autoupdate during those times.
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#108Wow. This thread isn't controversial at all. I haven't found a single comment making a case for Snap. It seems to be universally disliked - at least by this crowd.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
We switched over to Fedora, way better
I switched many years ago. I make heavy use of Flatpaks, which are great, although they have a lot of unlocked potential still. dnf installs regular-old packages, as opposed to Ubuntu, where apt packages now install snap packages. Debian or Fedora should become the new default recommendation. Debian probably fits better for novices, since Fedora doesn't have non-free packages out of the box.
Debian and Fedora have always been my two recommended distros for people. They are the upstream providers of the packages for most distros, and in the case of Ubuntu it has always been a bad choice.
Even from day one, forking Debian and breaking a bunch of packages as they went off on their own, then years later going oops how do we fix this Daddy Debian? Adding Amazon to their search by default in Unity initially. Creating a new desktop protocol to replace X11 rather than work with the Wayland teams so they could rush to ship their phone that nobody wanted.
Canonical is just a good marketing company. They want to do things their way and screw over as many Linux developers as they can to get their way.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see they're honestly trying to ease life for technically illiterate users (or, put it another way, to chase Apple's "just works" experience). But ignoring the needs of professional users (who are influencers) is a sure way to divert all users.
OK but even Apple lets you toggle automatic updates on or off.
And so does Google Play Store. Even windows has the settings buried somewhere