Hate Snaps? LOL! How About Now? DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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J-rgen
I am not a Linux expert, but is it essential under Linux to be forced to always use some pre-installed -stores- to install programs and you can-t simply download them from the original website of the provider and install them yourself the way you can under Windows or MacOS, with them that is always done quickly and easily, and if so, then you wouldn't really need these -stores- and the type of -store- would be completely unimportant ..... I find it really difficult to comprehend this special Linux topic and the discussions that go with it ... I don-t really understand why one uses only the terminal and special commands to install programs, at least I-ve always seen this only this way and no other
[sorry, English isn-t my main, but I guess you know what I mean]
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I am not a Linux expert, but is it essential under Linux to be forced to always use some pre-installed -stores- to install programs and you can-t simply download them from the original website of the provider and install them yourself the way you can under Windows or MacOS, with them that is always done quickly and easily, and if so, then you wouldn't really need these -stores- and the type of -store- would be completely unimportant ..... I find it really difficult to comprehend this special Linux topic and the discussions that go with it ... I don-t really understand why one uses only the terminal and special commands to install programs, at least I-ve always seen this only this way and no other
[sorry, English isn-t my main, but I guess you know what I mean]
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Godfather
Tell me to add points, against or for snaps, if ur response in favour/or against is good enough I'll add here for people to see.
What I've got till now:
1) snaps are heavier than flatpaks
2) snaps add considerable time to boot, it doubles the time on my hdd comp, from like 10 / 15 seconds to about 30 seconds.
3) just learnt that Snaps force updates, also cannot use the app while it's downloading and updating, so if you have a slow internet, wait 5 minutes till your browser is downloaded and installed.
4) also snaps is proprietary. Flatpaks is open source.
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Tell me to add points, against or for snaps, if ur response in favour/or against is good enough I'll add here for people to see.
What I've got till now:
1) snaps are heavier than flatpaks
2) snaps add considerable time to boot, it doubles the time on my hdd comp, from like 10 / 15 seconds to about 30 seconds.
3) just learnt that Snaps force updates, also cannot use the app while it's downloading and updating, so if you have a slow internet, wait 5 minutes till your browser is downloaded and installed.
4) also snaps is proprietary. Flatpaks is open source.
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Fadzlan
I kinda understand the snap store. Traditional package servers would never have non open source packages there.
Canonical recognize their users are most likely dont have issues on paying or using closed source software. I mean, I don't mind using VS Code, in fact I prefer to use VS Code. Having their own store will allow them to host any closed source software, which a lot of casual users don't mind using.
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I kinda understand the snap store. Traditional package servers would never have non open source packages there.
Canonical recognize their users are most likely dont have issues on paying or using closed source software. I mean, I don't mind using VS Code, in fact I prefer to use VS Code. Having their own store will allow them to host any closed source software, which a lot of casual users don't mind using.
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Christopher
My reason for disliking Snaps it the problems with how their bundled environment differs. Like the vscode snap for instance. It comes broken due to some old library it's bundled with. The break happens when you try to sync it with your github account. I tend to have issues with the software packages itself not working properly.
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My reason for disliking Snaps it the problems with how their bundled environment differs. Like the vscode snap for instance. It comes broken due to some old library it's bundled with. The break happens when you try to sync it with your github account. I tend to have issues with the software packages itself not working properly.
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Kira
Really, I'm amazed Canonical hasn't gotten the message yet that nobody wants Ubuntu locked down to anything proprietary. Every time they try, the community clones and branches it, it becomes popular with the community over their current choice, and their proprietary nonsense gets binned.
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Really, I'm amazed Canonical hasn't gotten the message yet that nobody wants Ubuntu locked down to anything proprietary. Every time they try, the community clones and branches it, it becomes popular with the community over their current choice, and their proprietary nonsense gets binned.
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-Michael
Calm your tits bro. (your words, not mine, lol) Snap has the real possibility of being abused. And you cannot argue that Canonical has a nice track record of abusing it's power over the Linux community. Just forcing Snaps on users, if nothing else, throws a red flag warning up.
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Calm your tits bro. (your words, not mine, lol) Snap has the real possibility of being abused. And you cannot argue that Canonical has a nice track record of abusing it's power over the Linux community. Just forcing Snaps on users, if nothing else, throws a red flag warning up.
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Martin
BTW, you don't need './' when preceding with 'sudo'(or any other command). Off-topic sorry, but if sometime wanting to run a script which isn't 'chmod +x'ed', then simply precede with 'sh', 'bash' or 'python' etc, and similarly you don't need './' here neither.
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BTW, you don't need './' when preceding with 'sudo'(or any other command). Off-topic sorry, but if sometime wanting to run a script which isn't 'chmod +x'ed', then simply precede with 'sh', 'bash' or 'python' etc, and similarly you don't need './' here neither.
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an93lofdeath
I don't like snaps because of all the loop devices it creates and how slow it is. I wouldn't say snaps where bad or that no one should use them, I just don't like them. I'm ok with flatpacs and I've never tried appimages so have no opinions on them.
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I don't like snaps because of all the loop devices it creates and how slow it is. I wouldn't say snaps where bad or that no one should use them, I just don't like them. I'm ok with flatpacs and I've never tried appimages so have no opinions on them.
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ZekromInfinity
I don't hate snaps, I hate all appstores in genral. They are ugly, not convinient and confuse average desktop user with shit like repo, dependencies, snap, flatpak, Deb, etc...
Also its annoying to see a snap folder on hope page of nautilus.
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I don't hate snaps, I hate all appstores in genral. They are ugly, not convinient and confuse average desktop user with shit like repo, dependencies, snap, flatpak, Deb, etc...
Also its annoying to see a snap folder on hope page of nautilus.
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DeltaR9A2
At 8:15 will it really run a native binary from the working directory? I can't recall ever using a Linux system where that would work. That's how it works in windows, though, so it wouldn't surprise me if some Linux distros configure it that way.
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At 8:15 will it really run a native binary from the working directory? I can't recall ever using a Linux system where that would work. That's how it works in windows, though, so it wouldn't surprise me if some Linux distros configure it that way.
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