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That's definitely true. I absolutely loathe snaps. I just don't know what distro I'd use instead for my headless servers.
by ang_cire 2y ago
That's definitely true. I absolutely loathe snaps. I just don't know what distro I'd use instead for my headless servers.
- forrestthewoods 2y agoWhy do you loathe snaps?
- ender341341 2y agoI found trying to work with them atrocious for anything that needed to be configured. You have to find the documentation for the product to see what you wanna configure, then you search the system and it's not there, so you have to find the (likely non-existent) documentation of where the snap moved the configuration to. that's in addition to the normal gripes about application start up time, or how hard they make it to not auto-update out from under you at. And then there's the closed nature of the snap ecosystem (single storefront controlled by Canonical), making many feel that canonical is trying to turn Ubuntu into a a more iPhone style closed system as opposed to being able to add whatever source you want to apt.
- ang_cire 2y agoBecause I regularly need to change configurations in snap applications, and it's a huge pain. Or I want the application to make use of files in a location, and they can't access them because they're snaps.
- suprjami 2y agoAfter using Ubuntu (with a few detours here and there) since 2006, I switched everything to Debian with the latest release. I'm very happy. It feels like Ubuntu used to feel - a distro made for users first.
- xorcist 2y agoWhy not go with Debian directly? As soon as you enable universe you are basically partly running Debian anyway.