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What about snaps on Ubuntu? https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about-snaps-on-ubuntu-20.04/ https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-t

by edu-ap 5y ago

What about snaps on Ubuntu? https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about-snaps-on-ubuntu-20.04/ https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about...

michaelt 5y ago
But everyone hates snaps. Huge files (made worse by an insistence on keeping two versions of everything around). Slow to start even a simple calculator. Fills the mount list with spam. All to deliver the "feature" that Discord can't share a file from ~/.minecraft/screenshots/whatever.png and ffmpeg can't access /dev/video0 Users prefer dpkg so clearly that Canonical had to make a fake dpkg file for Chromium that installs it using snap.
- ivolimmen 5y ago
  From a user perspective : it does work. I always had issues running Spotify on it if I ran a newer Ubuntu than Spotify built their application for. Now I run the snap and everything just works.
  - beermonster 5y ago
    That might just be because you're now running the latest version? Were you previously running the distro supplied Spotify or from Spotify's own APT repo?
- xet7 5y ago
  I love Snaps: - When there is new security fix, like new version of Node.js, I release new version of Wekan https://wekan.github.io https://wekan.github.io and all those about 9000 servers worldwide are updated automatically soon and safe from that vulnerability. Wekan migrations upgrade database schema etc automatically. - When Snap is upgraded, it upgrades very fast, compared to Docker - Snap does not have layers taking big amount of disk space, like Docker - Snap sandbox works very well. Snaps with strict confinement (like Wekan) can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory. - Snaps are the reason to select Snap compatible distro https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd . Is there any other automatic update system like Snap? AFAIK other update systems require manual steps to update.

by edu-ap 5y ago

What about snaps on Ubuntu? https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about-snaps-on-ubuntu-20.04/ https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about...

michaelt 5y ago

But everyone hates snaps. Huge files (made worse by an insistence on keeping two versions of everything around). Slow to start even a simple calculator. Fills the mount list with spam. All to deliver the "feature" that Discord can't share a file from ~/.minecraft/screenshots/whatever.png and ffmpeg can't access /dev/video0 Users prefer dpkg so clearly that Canonical had to make a fake dpkg file for Chromium that installs it using snap.

ivolimmen 5y ago
From a user perspective : it does work. I always had issues running Spotify on it if I ran a newer Ubuntu than Spotify built their application for. Now I run the snap and everything just works.
- beermonster 5y ago
  That might just be because you're now running the latest version? Were you previously running the distro supplied Spotify or from Spotify's own APT repo?
xet7 5y ago
I love Snaps: - When there is new security fix, like new version of Node.js, I release new version of Wekan https://wekan.github.io https://wekan.github.io and all those about 9000 servers worldwide are updated automatically soon and safe from that vulnerability. Wekan migrations upgrade database schema etc automatically. - When Snap is upgraded, it upgrades very fast, compared to Docker - Snap does not have layers taking big amount of disk space, like Docker - Snap sandbox works very well. Snaps with strict confinement (like Wekan) can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory. - Snaps are the reason to select Snap compatible distro https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd . Is there any other automatic update system like Snap? AFAIK other update systems require manual steps to update.