4 ms·
What are the programs that you've had to install through snap? Or are you talking about the existence of snap on the system in general? Personally I have not
by MrDresden 3y ago
What are the programs that you've had to install through snap?
Or are you talking about the existence of snap on the system in general?
Personally I have not a single snap packge installed, and am usually able to find sources for the programs I use elswhere than in the snap ecosystem.
- mhh__ 3y agoFirefox is a snap by default
- Nasreddin_Hodja 3y agoAfter Ubuntu moved Firefox to snap, I started using official tarballs for Firefox and Thunderbird.
- MrDresden 3y agoI just use the Firefox ESR PPA instead.
- jeremija 3y agoOh don't let me get me started on this. I use Firefox on a work machine and I spent a number of hours troubleshooting why it couldn't access the Internet when I was connected on VPN. I suspected it had something to do with snapd, so I downloaded the .tar.gz release of Firefox and it worked. I kept investigating and figured it must have something to do with snap.firefox.firefox apparmor profile because the VPN client was symlinking the /etc/resolv.conf to /opt/.../resolv.conf However, updating the apparmor profile didn't help so I ultimately realized that snap has a hardcoded list of paths that get mounted into the app container [1] and there's no way to change this. There are a number of reasons to hate on snapd, but this almost made me flip the table. Also, as a bonus point, if you look at the apparmor profile I mentioned it has a ton of comments about chrome, so someone must've just copy pasted it and modified to work with Firefox. GrEaT SeCuRiTy! [1]: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/3a88dc38ca122eba97192dba3aad30f3bd3e3081/cmd/snap-confine/mount-support.c#L953-L980 https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/3a88dc38ca122eba97192...