Snap is just flatpak but worse for most cases (the only exception being cli apps). The fact canonical are pushing it so badly makes Linux more fragmented for no real reason.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Just accept that Ubuntu uses Snap for its packages. Same as other distros use other packages solutions.
Picking up some popcorn 🍿
Hey let's install a tiny little command with snap!
3 houweurs laturrr...
Aaaaand we're still doing something, are we even downloading yet?
Snap sucks sooooo bad.
Straight up opposite experience here. Snaps work great for me.
you know you can uninstall and purge snap and everything related to it and still use Ubuntu
Yes, it is called Mint
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Man, ubuntu has gotten so bad in past years. I wanted to hop a distro (a long time user) but couldn't get the live environment load. Any other ubuntu derivative works just fine. But not ubuntu.
Unpopular opinion: Ubuntu was always kinda bad
Gentoo doesn't snap, it runs smoothly