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minus-squareIronChe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoCould someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?
minus-squareMonologue@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agosnap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don’t like the slow start up times
minus-squared_k_bo@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThere are better solutions for everything it does/tries to do: Flatpak for desktop applications docker/podman/LXC/… for server software apt/dnf/pacman/… for system utilities
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSlow startup time, doesn’t honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
minus-squarezemja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt automatically updates the software you’ve installed, and there’s no way to turn that off. That’s why I personally hate it.
Could someone explain to me why snap has such a bad reputation?
snap backend is proprietary and controlled by canonical also people don’t like the slow start up times
There are better solutions for everything it does/tries to do:
Slow startup time, doesn’t honour system themes and big download sizes come to my mind.
It automatically updates the software you’ve installed, and there’s no way to turn that off. That’s why I personally hate it.