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Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand why people are so hell bent on hating Snaps. The architecture is literally better than Flatpak -- and I'm quite sure it's possible to run one's own Snap host. Some people say they're bloated and slow, well not anymore than Flatpak (actually less) and people love that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hate them because they make Ubuntu useless for a desktop in an enterprise environment. Snaps have a bug where they will NOT open with a network home directory, which is common for a business ... And now they've made Firefox snap only.

So for a business environment: you can't even open the included web browser. WTF?

Do you understand now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For me the main argument is the repo side being proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The architecture is literally better than Flatpak

Why?

I don’t understand why people are so hell bent on hating Snaps.

Every single time I tried snaps in the last years I had a bad time. Either they were slow to start, refused to work (Docker snap) or made my machine boot significantly slower. Granted, I haven't bothered in a year or so.

At this point they just released unfinished software that was not ready for production, forced it onto people and are surprised when everybody remembers snap as being partially closed source, slow and unreliable. Even if it's not now, that's how the first impression was and it's going to stick forever.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Refer to an earlier post on the downsides of flatpak, Snap basically doesn't have a lot of those issues other than the fundamental ones regarding a canonical far package

You may have used Snaps when they used XZ compression. XZ is a stellar compressor, but for static data. It compresses better at the cost of being slower, nowadays Snaps use fast algorithms tuned for faster decompression, so it starts a lot faster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Even if it's not now, that's how the first impression was and it's going to stick forever.

I agree with them on this.