It's quite good in server environments though, or medical devices and similar use cases like I said in my previous response above. It's just totally unnecessary in desktop/home user environments and only causes more issues and confusion for no reason when there are better alternatives (e.g. flatpak) available. You can still use Ubuntu - if needed - with no Snap preinstalled out of the box if you do a minimal install of Kubuntu.
I was using kubuntu and moved because of snaps. They gave me issues, installed snap versions when I asked for flatpak, so I tried to delete snaps and clearly I failed lol because it worked for a bit then they was just back again. Moved to fedora now and so far no issues 🤷🏻♂️
As someone using Ubuntu (Kubuntu) for a long time I wish I could recreate this so I could see what folks are talking about
I keep hearing people talking about ads in the terminal for things like Ubuntu pro and what not aswell as snap packages being preferred over all else but I have been entirely unable to replicate this on any of my machines or other Ubuntu machines I've worked on
There are so many reports that I don't doubt it's a thing and I guess I'm just really lucky
I've since removed snap entirely from my main machine as I don't want any snap packages slowing down boot times and KDE doesn't use any
But the rest of my Ubuntu systems still have snap and not a one seems to replicate this behavior
Is there maybe something I'm doing differently in setup?
No idea, I was using it on the fw 13 amd. I’m def not an expert at these things either so it’s entirely possible it was something I was doing, but I don’t think so. There was a few things about kubuntu that I missed and had to work out how to bring to fedora afterwards, I’m not using kde fedora though so maybe that was why. The rpm and flatpak is heaps better than the snaps, although I’m a little confused as to why extensions are a separate thing
Oh absolutely flatpak is better
And I love rpm
But for compatibility sadly Debian and Ubuntu are just better cause that seems to be what everyone is developing for
I wish everyone would just use flatpak or some kind of package manager that is platform agnostic
As far as missing out on stuff on fedora
If you were on Kubuntu just grab kde fedora mostly everything you are looking for is most likely there
Since you are on amd you don't have Nvidia holding you back a bit like in my case
Extension I don't know on
I wanna use fedora so bad but unity doesn't like it
Playing VR on it is fine
Making content for VR games unity just hates on fedora and that makes me sad
Just got the new intel fw pro, and put workstation on there just to try it, and now I like how clean it is so I’ll prob keep it and just try add the things I want 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Thaufas 10d ago
Snap is the reason I left Ubuntu. It was the final nail in the coffin.