On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM Steven Mainor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have to agree. I no longer use ubuntu because of snap. I personally left > the windows/mac ecosystems behind decades ago in order to get away from these > types of things. > > Technology doesn't have to be the enemy of liberty but it will be if we let > it. > I detest snaps in their current implementation - slow, clumsy, lots of files, bloated, etd.
They do strike me as a good idea, just not yet ready for prime time. I use Firefox from the Mozilla repo for direct apt install/update. I don't use Thunderbird at all, and I have both snaps marked for "don't install". It's also somewhat clumsy to remove the snaps that come with *buntu, but done once correctly, they don't come back unless I let them. Maybe when they're fast and don't bloat the processes and mounts, but definitely not before. Just my $0.03. Mark Richter, Bestselling Author, "Mystic Prince" Retired Expert Software Engineer Avid Xubuntu user/admin/fan http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
