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Upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04, where Firefox is Snap by default. Wasn't going to fight it, especially since Canonical has made 3 blog posts talking about how much faster they made Firefox on Snap.

Since then, I've had subtle but annoying issues.

  • Can't Google things that have a colon after the first word- i.e. error: file not found doesn't work
  • I get notifications for pending updates
  • Other apps like Gnome's Software take a minute+ to load on my beefy computer

This isn't even a meme. Snap is trash. I wanted to be neutral and not join the "hate train" but seriously. Snap is that bad.

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[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm still researching what OS will be ideal for me when in the close future and it seems until now it's ubuntu (or kubuntu), but I will make sure removing snap is the first thing to do.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mint. After Windows 10 happened, I jumped ship from Windows 7 and adopted Ubuntu 16.04 --> 18.04 for 5 years, then last month I freshly installed 22.04 since I stick to LTS. Jumped to Mint in 2 weeks.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

I use just one Snap, rest are native, and a dozen or so Flatpaks and about a dozen Appimages.