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What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Snap as a format is not proprietary but Canonical's Snap Store is. And Canonical's Snap Store is basically the only one in existence and (semi?) hard-coded into all the tools.

In any case, on a fresh install I usually throw out all the Snap stuff and go for Flatpak, because for some apps, these two formats tend to be the only options anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Removing snap from Ubuntu, at least, seems to be more impossible with every update as far as I've heard. Apparently it just reinstalls itself if you try to use apt in order to install eg. Firefox and then uses snap for that package. So I'd guess actually disabling snap would mean somehow configuring or editing apt itself or some addon to it. Any way, such a closed design in combination with the tactics Canonical (at least did) use in order to keep snap as a default looks kinda Microsofty to me.
Wann Klage gegen Canonical wegen Monopolstellung?
In Englisch nem Deutschen zu antworten fühlt sich affig an lül

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Removing snap from Ubuntu, at least, seems to be more impossible with every update as far as I’ve heard. Apparently it just reinstalls itself if you try to use apt in order to install eg. Firefox and then uses snap for that package. So I’d guess actually disabling snap would mean somehow configuring or editing apt itself or some addon to it.

Basically you need to have a list of packages to avoid in your head. :) And with every passing release there are more. Great!!

Since I've gone back to using Ubuntu I've managed to avoid these traps somehow.

Wann Klage gegen Canonical wegen Monopolstellung?

While their practices suck, they don't exactly have a monopoly. If they're eventually bought out by MS, something could happen. (So far, MS seems happy (and capable) to do its own thing though.)

In Englisch nem Deutschen zu antworten fühlt sich affig an lül

Yeah, but this is a public thread in an English-language community.