✨Nora Tindall (@tindall@cybre.space)
cybre.space
Snap is a really cool system and in some ways it's better than Flatpak. I understand the maintainability benefits over repo-packaged software. But, consistently, Snap-packaged software Does Not Work; Chromium broke when they snapified it, and now Firefox is broken on @ubuntu@ubuntu.social too. I can't report bugs against it, because the support page for Mozilla is useless and the distro doesn't accept bugs against the snap version - even though, from a user perspective, the change is simple. "Firefox on Ubuntu used to be really good, and now it doesn't work." I don't know what to say other than, Canonical, you broke my heart. I've been a die-hard Ubuntu user since Lucid - on my first ever computer of my own! - and I think I'm done. I'm getting a Lenovo 2242 NVMe SSD for my T480 in today, and I think I'm going to install Fedora.
  • sgtnasty
    3·
    3 years ago

    Most of the applications I use are flatpaks and they launch just as fast and I have no issues with theses. The ONLY “issue” I ran into was a sandbox problem with not being able to launch an editor. Cant remember the which app it was, but I’m sure I can fix it with flatseal.

    In my humble opinion, if there ever is going to be a “year of the linux desktop” its going to be Fedora who gets there first. Canonical gave up a few years ago and is more interested in server.

    • nutomicA
      8·
      3 years ago

      Ubuntu even installs the snap service on servers which makes no sense for me.

      • AgreeableLandscapeOPM
        4·
        3 years ago

        Especially since snaps seem to be on an “edge” release cycle. Kind of rolling release.

        Which is exactly the thing you don’t want on a mission critical system!

      • Bilb!
        2·
        3 years ago

        Last I checked is still the recommended way to install the LetsEncrypt certbot, though these days I tend to have that happen within containers anyway.

    • AgreeableLandscapeOPM
      1·
      3 years ago

      The ONLY “issue” I ran into was a sandbox problem with not being able to launch an editor. Cant remember the which app it was, but I’m sure I can fix it with flatseal.

      VSCode/VSCodium?