Mad About Snap? Remove Them. Use Flatpaks Instead. DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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sudoaptpurge
I mean I get the idea of snap, flatpak and appimage, being distro-independent, providing a unified way to manage packages, containerizing and all that, and it sounds good in theory. But then the actual thing is a piece of crap. Slower, larger, creating loop partitions and all that, just ugh, no. And of course we don't have to use them, fortunately. Except if for example some software you want to use is no longer available as a deb, only as snap or flatpak, so either you just take it or you find a way to install the thing manually, which is absolutely disgusting. The cure for all this crap is of course Arch or Manjaro. A shit ton of stuff is already available in the base repos, and whatever isn't will likely be in the AUR.
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I mean I get the idea of snap, flatpak and appimage, being distro-independent, providing a unified way to manage packages, containerizing and all that, and it sounds good in theory. But then the actual thing is a piece of crap. Slower, larger, creating loop partitions and all that, just ugh, no. And of course we don't have to use them, fortunately. Except if for example some software you want to use is no longer available as a deb, only as snap or flatpak, so either you just take it or you find a way to install the thing manually, which is absolutely disgusting. The cure for all this crap is of course Arch or Manjaro. A shit ton of stuff is already available in the base repos, and whatever isn't will likely be in the AUR.
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Ahriman13
Thanks for your video. tbh snap is a huge mess. The argument you -I wanna remove snap but use flat- and you talk like it is a negative thing is not really right. Brave browser and Chrome and Microsoft Edge are all browsers and all based on same core, BUT they're entirely deferent in many important stuff.
I just tell what you said to yoursellf, -calm your tits bro- and look at the whole situation from other people's perspective too. I absolutely hate snap cause this shit is old, you can't do even completely normal stuff that you can do with other projects and it's a pain in the arse to handle them. Don't forget updates take ages until they arrive. It's completely a deferent story in Flatpak tho.
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Thanks for your video. tbh snap is a huge mess. The argument you -I wanna remove snap but use flat- and you talk like it is a negative thing is not really right. Brave browser and Chrome and Microsoft Edge are all browsers and all based on same core, BUT they're entirely deferent in many important stuff.
I just tell what you said to yoursellf, -calm your tits bro- and look at the whole situation from other people's perspective too. I absolutely hate snap cause this shit is old, you can't do even completely normal stuff that you can do with other projects and it's a pain in the arse to handle them. Don't forget updates take ages until they arrive. It's completely a deferent story in Flatpak tho.
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key2adventure
I don't want snap, but I tried several distros and they wouldn't work with my hardware out of the box (especially my Nvidia graphics card) but Ubuntu did and even provided really snappy graphics performance. And now it's to troublesome to start all over installing new distros and all the packages that I need for my daily work including linking up again with passwords, creating image database and all sorts of stuff. That will take days. Therefore I stay with Ubuntu that did such a nice job in running my machine perfectly from the start. BUT I THINK I STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SNAPS THAT ARE SLOWING MY COMPUTER DOWN. So thanks for the tips for removing snap.
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I don't want snap, but I tried several distros and they wouldn't work with my hardware out of the box (especially my Nvidia graphics card) but Ubuntu did and even provided really snappy graphics performance. And now it's to troublesome to start all over installing new distros and all the packages that I need for my daily work including linking up again with passwords, creating image database and all sorts of stuff. That will take days. Therefore I stay with Ubuntu that did such a nice job in running my machine perfectly from the start. BUT I THINK I STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SNAPS THAT ARE SLOWING MY COMPUTER DOWN. So thanks for the tips for removing snap.
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Paper
I'm just afraid that developers will completely switch to using Snaps or Flatpak to package their applications. I also don't like to think about how in the future, half your applications will run natively and the other half will run in a container, like a snap, flatpak, etc. It just confuses everything and adds bloat to your system, something people try to get away with when they switch to Linux.
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I'm just afraid that developers will completely switch to using Snaps or Flatpak to package their applications. I also don't like to think about how in the future, half your applications will run natively and the other half will run in a container, like a snap, flatpak, etc. It just confuses everything and adds bloat to your system, something people try to get away with when they switch to Linux.
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robert
If you don't like it there are hundreds of other distros out there and dozens of Ubuntu variants running gnome. I don't get why anyone would go install Ubuntu then immediately remove snap support in the first place. Don't like it don't use it. You use Linux because you wanted choices.
As pointless as trying to turn your cat into a vegetarian.
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If you don't like it there are hundreds of other distros out there and dozens of Ubuntu variants running gnome. I don't get why anyone would go install Ubuntu then immediately remove snap support in the first place. Don't like it don't use it. You use Linux because you wanted choices.
As pointless as trying to turn your cat into a vegetarian.
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Robin
I do not understand why anyone cares about packaged apps. Sure one can fully compile and build any software that you want. Actually, my version of ubuntu didn't come with the Snap Store installed. But it was easy to install. I have written compiled, linked and built many programs over the years. I have no idea why it matters so much.
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I do not understand why anyone cares about packaged apps. Sure one can fully compile and build any software that you want. Actually, my version of ubuntu didn't come with the Snap Store installed. But it was easy to install. I have written compiled, linked and built many programs over the years. I have no idea why it matters so much.
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Bjornar
How about a type of container system that acts as an installer which only installs the software you want + any required dependencies you might need, but only if not already installed. That way, with the installer you'd be sure you could run the software on any distro, but without unnecessary bloat.
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How about a type of container system that acts as an installer which only installs the software you want + any required dependencies you might need, but only if not already installed. That way, with the installer you'd be sure you could run the software on any distro, but without unnecessary bloat.
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Lee
Thanks for this. My biggest issue with snaps is that apps are much slower to start up, and it just makes for a less -standard- build.
But, thanks for the tips and for confirming they can be removed without issue. A helpful video, and I'm on my way to being snap free!
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Thanks for this. My biggest issue with snaps is that apps are much slower to start up, and it just makes for a less -standard- build.
But, thanks for the tips and for confirming they can be removed without issue. A helpful video, and I'm on my way to being snap free!
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Hans
I am asking as a non Ubuntu user. Back when I used Ubuntu snaps weren-t around. I just installed Software as usual, with apt. If no package was available I sometimes had to use make.
I wonder what the fuzz is all about. What is so bad about snaps? Please explain
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I am asking as a non Ubuntu user. Back when I used Ubuntu snaps weren-t around. I just installed Software as usual, with apt. If no package was available I sometimes had to use make.
I wonder what the fuzz is all about. What is so bad about snaps? Please explain
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Aman
I am complaining about snap because I have a low spec laptop 4gb ram , 1tb hdd and i3 processor . Windows sucks in this config that why I am shifting from Windows to linux ,but saw that snap required a much resources
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I am complaining about snap because I have a low spec laptop 4gb ram , 1tb hdd and i3 processor . Windows sucks in this config that why I am shifting from Windows to linux ,but saw that snap required a much resources
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