The most annoying thing for me was the huge internet data usage by snap updates but it is better now.
Even though it showed 300mb for a Firefox update, but only consumed 80mb and everything updated and working wonderfully ! 😅 😍 👑
The New app store is beautiful 🙌
(just sharing my experience 😅 )
I still want to be able to choose whether or not to use snaps. I don’t care how friendly they get.
I understand the sentiment. That said, you’re forced to use deb files from Ubuntu’s repositories. 🫠 There are some fundamental choices that are made for you by the OS developers. Sometimes you have more leeway, sometimes less. It’s not the first time and this isn’t the only system component people have complained about. Ultimately if a user disagrees with a choice that the OS developer has made about a system upon which the OS developer depends to ship a working system, it’s probably wiser to switch OSes than fuck around with the system.
It’s more of a double edged sword: snaps were great imho when they replaced the mess of old we had going on with thirty or so incompatible ppas.
But why force snaps for central stuff like FF/Chromium and soon Thunderbird?
I just upgraded an old PC and reinstalling Ubuntu meant that all my configs of these apps and then some broke. Snap is using incompatible storage for dotfiles and configurations. And more often than not central Desktop functions like the cursors (atm no hand cursor in FF for me!), sound and common extensions don’t work ootb. For the odd piece of speciality sw I’d had to go hunting for before that’s alright. But not for everyday stuff
Come on canonical, don’t enshittify you great distribution…
@jfx Yes…You’re right…
I kind of dislike the 50 bazillion mounted block devices. I’m an old gray beard at this point and I like my CLI. That’s really my only complaint about it. It just seems unnatural to me. Otherwise they’re fine mostly.
I’ve seen very similar use of loop devices in an automotive app management implementation. Each app has its own filesystem image that gets mounted on a loop device on installation, then runs from it. It’s annoying on the command line but it’s not a bad use case of the facility. ☺️
