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Snaps (and Flatpaks) are awesome for publishers of apps and laypersons though. There's a reason the average person sees the macOS style of installation (and rem

• toyg 10y ago
  Gold standard? Mac apps, when uninstalled naively, leave lots of stuff around under /Library (or worse, if they had a .pkg). Then you have the Frameworks complications, plist-caching hell... Just because Mac apps don't use a central registry it doesn't mean they are so much better than Windows ones. In comparison, apt-get is not bad at all: you install and uninstall anything with one command and --purge gives you you decent guarantees that it will all go away, including config files.
  • seenitall 10y ago
    Snaps can be 'strictly confined' which means all their reading and writing happens in a limited set of directories exclusively for their use. So 'snap remove' cleans everything up perfectly. Ask your upstream for a strictly confined snap, it's a bit more work but once they have done it everybody wins.
  • tornadoboy55 10y ago
    Note that I said average person. They will never touch a command line, so apt-get is out, and the Ubuntu Software Center is buggy as hell. Compare that to macOS: Drag app in .dmg to 'Applications' folder: installed. Drag app from 'Applications' folder to trash: uninstalled. Need to remove all settings? remove the apps' concerning folder in ~/Library/Application Support and plist in ~/Library/Preferences. Yeah, I'd say that's pretty simple. And although the Mac App store has its flaws (draconian sandboxing) it also works like a charm.