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Why is snaps hated (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it's NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At best it works more or less the same as an ordinary package. It only gets worse from there.

Several times I've been stuck on a broken version of Discord because on the server side they force an update to the new client, and the new client has not been packaged as a Snap yet.

Getting native hosts to work in Firefox is possible, but a giant pain in the butt.

Basically anything that needs filesystem access is unreasonably troublesome. I gave up on getting Snaps to work with my external drives.

There is simply no scenario where I think "wow, I sure am glad this was packaged as a Snap!" There have been many scenarios where I thought "god dammit why is this a Snap?!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Several times I’ve been stuck on a broken version of Discord because on the server side they force an update to the new client, and the new client has not been packaged as a Snap yet.

To be fair this is more of an issue with Discord than snap.. Would be understandable if it was an urgent security fix but they do it every time, and then it breaks for everybody who is using anything else than the deb or tar.gz they provide.

Workaround for Fedora: Edit /usr/lib64/discord/resources/build_info.json and increase the version number to whatever Discord tells you is the new version. And hope that the update wasn't a fix for some remote code execution vulnerability :)