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I used Ubuntu Desktop in the past, I think they had the right idea with Unity, however it felt like they didn't push hard enough. I was using Ubuntu Server eve
by voidr 3y ago
I used Ubuntu Desktop in the past, I think they had the right idea with Unity, however it felt like they didn't push hard enough.
I was using Ubuntu Server everywhere, I stopped using it the moment they started forcing snaps. Snaps are inferior technology, I don't want to install a daemon just to install software on my server, I don't want an unpredictable auto upgrade technology and I don't want millions of mount points.
DEB and RPM have been around since forever, I can deploy software using those technologies and expect it to work in 10 years, the same cannot be said for Snaps, there is nothing there to guaranty that it won't just end up like: Upstart, Mir and Unity.
I can ship my software as a Docker container and have it work everywhere or I can put in a lot of work to ship a snap and have it only really work on Ubuntu, I don't even know what was Canonical thinking here. I don't care that I can install snapd on most distros, if it's not actively supported by the distro it does not count.