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[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 points 6 hours ago

If you were running a previous version of Ubuntu, where you had deb packages which worked, over the course of a few updates, they replaced half of your programs with snaps (without telling you), which were unable to see additional hard drives, USB pens, printers, scanners or cameras, couldn't use plug-ins, couldn't use 3rd party templates or presets, and didn't respect any system settings for fonts/text size, icon placement and so on.

Snaps were fine for "aisleriot solitaire" or "calculator" (assuming you didn't mind a 5 minute loading time) or other things which didn't need to interact with any file or system or device, but for actual programs for people trying to do work? Bag of shite.

Now, I imagine some years later they must have fixed some of this rubbish, and I read recently they might have finally done something about permissions, but no, they didn't ask anyone before they swapped working programs for completely broken snaps. They forced it on their existing users, and some of us bear grudges.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

over the course of a few updates, they replaced half of your programs with snaps (without telling you),

You don't need to lie. A full list of debs that have been transitioned to snaps is:

  • Firefox
  • Thunderbird
  • Chromium
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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