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I hate snap (no experience with flatpack). I have setup my Ubuntu to not use snap, and have snapd removed. I install Chrome from Debina Buster because that way
by cies 5y ago
I hate snap (no experience with flatpack). I have setup my Ubuntu to not use snap, and have snapd removed. I install Chrome from Debina Buster because that way it is not "snap packaged".
Since I use nearly exclusively open source software I tend to trust it. I see the extra security benefits of snap and want that for sure, but all the trouble I had using it was simply not worth it for me.
I'll come back in 10 years with snap and wayland have actually matured :)
- opan 5y agoWayland is great, imo, but I do not want any part of these alternative package formats. I'm much happier with the guix/nix approach.
- nickstinemates 5y agoisn't guix/nix fairly alternative?
- Ericson2314 5y agoWell, it's traditional in that it doesn't promote wanton dependency vendoring
- LeoPanthera 5y agoIf you're going to so much effort, why run Ubuntu in the first place?
- cies 5y ago> why run Ubuntu in the first place? Gotten used to it (first Debian), has decent desktop and server game, kinda "just works" and if not there more people stuck and solutions are published.
- bityard 5y agoYou might like Pop OS. It's downstream of Ubuntu but has some convenient stuff added and some annoying stuff removed (like snapd).
- veidr 5y agoYep, I just moved to Pop from macOS after many years, and while I would rephrase it "just... 'kinda works'" (but I would say that about macOS also) it is a pretty great distro from the perspective of the "I do not wish to spend more than 5 minutes tweaking my operating system" user.
- gtirloni 5y agoflatpaks are great, you should really try them.