The controversy around snaps is growing :-(

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

On 03/05/2020 07:51, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:33 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     This expresses some of my own concerns:
>
>     https://jatan.blog/2020/05/02/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/
>
>     And this is a useful explanation:
>
>     https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/
>
>     Some of my colleagues in the Linux business have commented on the
>     intrusiveness of snaps.
>
>     I am considering removing snap support on my own systems. If I can, I
>     never use them.
>
>
> I am disappointed with snaps, but I really am quite sympathetic with
> the argument for putting Chromium in a snap. If it saves any developer
> effort (with something that takes a lot of ongoing maintenance like a
> browser) it's probably worth doing something.
>
> I had fewer issues with Flatpaks, but even those were poor performers
> on low-resource systems.
>
> Folks who have been updating Ubuntu every six months (non LTS) have
> probably been running more and more snaps for awhile. The software
> center in 19.10 "Eoan" DOES at least SHOW when items are in a snap,
> and Flatpak integration works there so I presume at least that part
> will get fixed in the LTS version.
>

I love snaps they work great for me


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