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Ubuntu Snap Hate (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?

Are Snaps just a lot slower than flatpaks or something? They're both a bit bloaty as far as I know but makes Canonicals attempt worse?

Personally I think for home users or niche there should be a snap less variant of this distribution with all the bells and whistles.

Sure it might be pointless, but you could argue that for dozens of other distros that take Debian, Fedora or Arch stuff and make it as their own variant, I.e MX Linux or Manjaro.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Snap my ass. Snaps are broken by design as they don't use much in the way of standards

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How are snaps broken by design and standards?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The directories are non standard and global and they use loop mounts for some reason. Software shouldn't depend on root just to run.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

System software depends on root though? Snaps have a design that allow system software sandboxing, which no other system allows, and is transparent.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except flatpak does it better and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. All flatpak uses is bubblewrap

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Flatpak cannot sandbox system applications. Snap can.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is a "system application"? If it is part of the system wouldn't you not want to sandbox it? Also selinux exists for a reason.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this your level of knowledge of software systems and security?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure my knowledge isn't complete. However, I still don't see anything good about snaps

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Then your knowledge is not complete.