[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 9:32 PM Remi Gauvin <remi at georgianit.com> wrote:

> On 2022-04-23 8:55 p.m., William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > What exactly is wrong with Snap?  It should be transparent to users, no?
>
> Forced updates you are *not allowed* to disable...that's right, the
> creators of snap think they get to choose what you are allowed to do on
> your system.. that should be pretty big red flag.
>
> Proprietary app store, Canonical is trying to make this ubiquious so
> they collect rent on commercial apps for all distros.
>
> Problems with system intergration.
>
> Breaks system very badly if you boot with a kernel that doesn't support
> apparmor.
>

Wait, there is more ...

- Each app has its own file system (I think /dev/snap/xxxx) which clutters
things.

- Snaps are basically statically linked blobs, so all of what we learned
over the
past 3 decades of dynamically linking, dependency management, goes out the
window ...

- Having two separate ways to install and update applications is not
conducive
to good system administration practices.
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