Comment by ForHackernews
14 hours ago
Frustrating because the Slack snap is broken so every day you have to downgrade it and I guess you can't without connectivity.
This might be the incentive I need to finally purge snap.
14 hours ago
Frustrating because the Slack snap is broken so every day you have to downgrade it and I guess you can't without connectivity.
This might be the incentive I need to finally purge snap.
Snap recently got much more polished.
I used to have to find a script to purge excess old snaps that would fill up my hard drive. Now Ubuntu only keeps two versions of each snap.
I was wondering why the script didn't have to ever clean more than one version, even when I took longer between running updates.
Just move to flatpak, much nicer to deal with
I got rid of both and my system is much better for it. The only thing I still use that is distributed in such a format is AppImage, and mainly because it has never given me trouble.
In my testing I find the exact reverse. I much prefer snap to flatpak.
Snap is mostly limited to Ubuntu and has to run as a daemon.
Flatpak gives me cross-platform/cross-distro software directly/certified by the project or company that has additional security sandboxing and doesn't open up potential security issues.
I don't have to wait for a distro package, and yet there are no system integration concerns.
It also works great for atomic distros (SilverBlue, etc)
Both fail hard for so many things. If you need any sort of hardware acceleration, just use an rpm/deb.