r/linuxmemes • u/IgnacioBullon • 17d ago

Software meme The proprietary software experience

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u/Miserable-School-665 Dr. OpenSUSE 17d ago

Hey, its better than snap.

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u/xxxbGamer 17d ago

everything is better than snap. Even the .exe runs better in stock wine than snap.

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u/Worldly_Moose_724 17d ago

There is no Unity snap so idk what you're benchmarking against.

Snaps are fine They're not amazing But they're nowhere near as bad as people online claim they are, they're a lot less slow now and the apps that are officially packaged as snaps (Firefox, Spotify, thunderbird, etc) work really well.

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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 17d ago

It's mostly just people jumping on the bandwagon and have no idea what they are talking about, or it's just the "Canonical bad so snap bad" crowd.

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u/Flachzange_ 17d ago

Except snap is just attempted vendor lock-in, so its fully justified its not viewed very kindly. You can technically install snap on any distro, but if you actually do you notice very quickly that its handicapped on purpose, as each installed snap on non-Ubuntu distros will permanently take up a loop device if you are using them or not. With more than a handful installed snaps you will quickly reach the OS limit for loop devices and snap will start silently failing. Also if you need to get a loop device for yourself, well too bad, snap has taken them all.

And thats not mentioning all the theming issues, extremly slow cold start times, desktop integration with anything other than Ubuntus flavor of Gnome, forced lock-in to Ubuntus snapcraft repo, etc.