Snaps. Why? Please Stop
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Snaps. Why? Please Stop
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Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#2My concern is that a lot of laptops come with soldered in, non replaceable hard drives and all these sandboxed programs take up a lot of space. So if you buy cheap laptop with 256GB storage and start installing snap/flatpak/appimage eventually you’ll run out of disk storage and won’t be able to upgrade it (storage, that is). And the only solution is to buy upgradable laptop or a laptop with a lot of storage upfront.
That’s just one of the things that is messed up and annoys me.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#3You’re a company and your software actually runs on Linux. You want to reach as many people as possible. So you make a .deb for Ubuntu. Or you go with a package manager that is cross-distro.
That’s why.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#4I won't use Snaps.
Please stop trying to work around my chosen distro's package maintainers.
If I want to use your program and there isn't a package for it, I'll build it from source myself.
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#5Other than the clickbaity title, the second paragraph begins “ Traditional package managers are perfect” - which is untrue. Then the post ends “ Educate me.” - such a “change my mind” attitude seems rather trollish.
I dislike snaps as much as the next person but I wonder if we do need another discussion about it.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#6Why? Because of Dependency Hell. Apt sometimes even tries to solve "circular dependencies". Ridiculous.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#7Other than the clickbaity title, the second paragraph begins “ Traditional package managers are perfect” - which is untrue. Then the post ends “ Educate me.” - such a “change my mind” attitude seems rather trollish. I dislike snaps as much as the next person but I wonder if we do need another discussion about it.
> Then the post ends “ Educate me.” - such a “change my mind” attitude seems rather trollish.
And later responses by the OP of that thread further convince me that this was not a question asked in earnest.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#8Linux doesnt force either upon you.
Life is good. We are free.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#9You’re a company and your software actually runs on Linux. You want to reach as many people as possible. So you make a .deb for Ubuntu. Or you go with a package manager that is cross-distro. That’s why.
ehhhh.... If I want to reach as many people as possible I would build rpm, deb, docker images, provide source code. I would not use snaps because it would imply more effort from the end user -- they first need to install snapd and only then my app.
Re: Snaps. Why? Please Stop
#10There are so many half baked takes, but this is my favorite:
> There will always be a market for stable-over-latest software, especially for businesses.
That market is called the nvd.nist.gov at best and 0 day brokers at worst. Why do people stil not accept the fix forward supremacy and patch their mess?