• lmr0x61@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I gotta get my ass off Ubuntu. It’s literally just Business Debian—or in other words, Debian but worse.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    1·
    4 months ago

    The day I went to install something with APT and it forced installed the Snap with no easy way to tell it not to was the last day I ever ran Ubuntu on my PC

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      I recently tried Ubuntu.
      Wait, no, I fought Ubuntu.

      Firefox was snap. OK, remove it and apt install. Nope, that installs a snap. Now, one more thing, for some reason uninstalling the snap version of Firefox took several minutes each time where it was “disconnecting” it from a bunch of things, or something along those lines.

      So I followed the Mozilla guide for Firefox installation on Ubuntu. Did it work? No. The higher priority setting for Mozilla repo from their guide didn’t work.
      Finally, I found the answer on OMG Ubuntu, and I could finally install the regular Firefox package.

    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
      1·
      4 months ago

      The day they mentioned snaps was the day I grumbled and started recommending mint instead. Or maybe that was the day they crammed sponsored search results into their start menu…

  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
    0·
    4 months ago

    I’ve not used Ubuntu based since pop 22.04, so sorry for the misinformed question. What’s the user facing issue with snap? I know the repos are solely managed by Ubuntu, but I didn’t have any issue I could attribute to snap. Actually I liked it had terminal app support, not only graphical ones like flatpak (last I checked at least)

    • hushable@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      I know the repos are solely managed by Ubuntu

      That’s my main issue with it, it makes your system dependent on a platform solely owned and controlled by Cannonical

    • clubb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      4 months ago

      It’s slow, and not great for desktop usage. Also, some apt packages have been transformed into snaps. If you do sudo apt install firefox it no longer installs the deb version, but the snap. I (and probably many other people) don’t like this lack of transparency and choice. It just feels like getting snaps pushed down our throats.

      • WbrJr@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 months ago

        That id my main issue. The lack of transparency send me down a bug hunt for a few hours before I realized apt installed a snap package. Makes me angry for some reason, but now I know