Why is snaps hated

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I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it's NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

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There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

Technical

  • Slow startup time

  • Makes lsblk look really ugly

  • For awhile users didn't have a lot of control over when things updated

  • Not designed to work with third party repos by default

  • Requires apparmor so it doesn't work well on selinux distros.

Philosophical

  • Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
  • Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren't Ubuntu
  • Some people just don't like Ubuntu

Also:

  • Creates a snap directory on your home. I hate programs that pollute my home.
  • Requires a service (snapd) to function.

Not only does it create that directory but it creates new folders for each updated version of various apps... Very weird and confusing

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