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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Snap packages have a larger install size, run slower, increase resource usage (so more RAM and CPU cycles), the snap store is a closed source system so you get things like Cryptocoin wallet scams , and personally, I think conceptually snap system leads to poor library maintenance long term

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  • I dislike it for all the technical reasons you listed but could live with it despite that.

    The entire reason I don't install Ubuntu distros for Anyone anymore is that you can tell it specifically you want a deb and it can decide, no, no you don't, and reinstall snapd and that app as a snap.

    That's ridiculous and against what I view Linux should be.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    We have an entire universe (from snaps up to univere-scale k8s setups) derived from "it works on my machine, so we'll ship my machine".

    How much bad software isn't being shook out because it's kept alive in a container with just the right dependencies to prevent it from activating bugs and bad assertions?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Having a closed source backend isn't the reason for malicious packages. There's a clear distinction between official and unofficial packages, and flathub isn't immune to this either.

    In comparison to flatpak, each runtime (core[number]) is supported for 10 years, so developers aren't pressured to update it if the app keeps working. The side effect is that over time you will end up with a few extra core snaps on your system but the peace of mind for the maintainers is worth it imo.

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