I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

Update: fixed typos

  • tiny@midwest.socialEnglish
    59·
    1 year ago

    There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

    Technical

    • Slow startup time
    • Makes lsblk look really ugly
    • For awhile users didn’t have a lot of control over when things updated
    • Not designed to work with third party repos by default
    • Requires apparmor so it doesn’t work well on selinux distros.

    Philosophical

    • Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
    • Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren’t Ubuntu
    • Some people just don’t like Ubuntu