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The missed the key 5th benefit: Allows you to sudo apt-get purge snapd without annoying unwanted consequences.
by ur-whale 3y ago
The missed the key 5th benefit:
Allows you to
sudo apt-get purge snapd
without annoying unwanted consequences.
- ColonelBlimp 3y agoYou didn’t have to wait for this new Firefox package to stop using snaps, did you?
- arzig 3y agoThe Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.
- jlarocco 3y agoMust have been an Ubuntu problem. I install Firefox via Debian's package, and have never had 'snapd' installed.
- arzig 3y agoYes. Ubuntu maintained their own deb package that redirected to a snap install.
- ColonelBlimp 3y agoFlatpaks are a perfectly functional option https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox
- Osiris 3y agoI recently had a problem where snapd kept sigfaulting and the fix was to purge it completely. It turns out that everything I had in snap was available in flatpak, which I prefer anyway.
- EasyMark 3y agothere is also appimage sometimes if you ever need something that isn't flatpak or system packages. It launches fast just like flatpak and unlike snap.
- mortallywounded 3y agoDon't forget `sudo apt-mark hold snapd` to prevent reinstalling it as a side dependency.
- dizhn 3y agoI believe lxd is still only available as snap packages on Ubuntu. I am not using it anymore but it's actually quite nice. Fortunately it's now been forked as incus and both Debian and openSUSE will have it. Probably a red-haty distro too.