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I'm not up to date on my Linux drama, what's wrong with Snap?
Slow, forced. Flatpack is better.
Huh, guess when I eventually end up back on Linux I'll stay away from Ubuntu then. I assume it's in things like Xubuntu and so on too?
I personally wouldn’t stay away from Ubuntu just because of petty nerd shenanigans like this one. At the end of the day it’s still a very mature and beginner friendly distro.
I used to use it back in the day, I even kinda liked that Unity thing they were doing for a minute. Whenever I end up back there (technically I'm already on Linux because I have a Steam Deck) I'm more likely to look for something lightweight
snaps break webusb, which some normies need
Just use Fedora. In my opinion, it's the new gold standard for standard use Linux distributions.
If you really want an Ubuntu base, Pop!_OS is also good. They're working on making their own desktop environment, which is looking pretty sweet.
It's centralized and controlled by Canonical, it enforces updates and you can't disable it, sometimes when you uninstall snapd it cames back when you apt update and most importantly, it is painfully slow.
Oh so it's the exact kind of enshittification that anyone on Linux went there to escape. Sounds like a deal breaker to me.
So it’s not about snap, it’s about canonical- and they are why I’m no longer an Ubuntu user. Debian > any downstream distro
Yeah, sounds extremely shitty. It'd be fine if they didn't force it
And the fact they're forcing it tells you they're going to do something anti-consumer with it, so even if it doesn't suck now it will in the future.
Valid point