Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

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[–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Canonical: snap snap snap snap snap snap snap snap snap

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's the issue with snaps? I'm still on Ubuntu ans abkut to switch to Debian, but for me its pretty chill atm because I don't have to worry about updates or security. I know about the terminal aliases, which could be disclosed better, but it's not that big of a deal to me. I thought it's pretty cool to have a "store" that's curated so I don't have to worry about security, since I use Linux casually.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I’ll just repost this repost of my personal experience then:

    Here’s my answer to this same question from an old thread on Reddit:

    My Ubuntu system always reserved a whopping 20% of my 32GB ram for no reason and I never bothered to know why. Later I uninstalled snapd because of boot time issues and guess what happened? Only 1.5 GB used after a fresh boot.

    I had like 4 different JetBrains IDEs installed via snap with each totalling around 2GB of disk space. While removing snapd I discovered it kept back 2-3 previous versions of every package on your disk.

    Uninstalling this bloat was the best thing I did to my ubuntu system. It was suddenly light as a feather and way more responsive like I just did a fresh system install.

    Some time later I was installing something from apt and Ubuntu tried to install it from snap, thus sneakily installing snapd in the process. Looking for a solution, I felt like I was looking up how to disable Windows updates or some other shit.

    I had a moment of clarity and wondered why the fuck did I have to put up with this kinda bullshit on Linux. I wiped that drive clean and switched to Fedora.

    Edit: and there’s also flatpak which-despite being awful in some ways-is better than snap in every conceivable way.

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