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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.
Do people really have this much gripe with the Snaps? I don’t even touch them and am only reminded they exist when people complain about them. Is there any actual downside to just ignoring installing Snaps and instead installing packages manually anyways?
for me it stopped being fun when firefox couldn’t access certain OS features or usb keys because they hadn’t specifically coded that one in. and I could only wait for a patch.
For me it’s a case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. I don’t get the point of switching to snaps when apt packages worked perfectly fine.
And in my experience it’s actually worse than APT. Installs/updates are slow, as is app startup, system integration features need extra work, …