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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What the hell is a snap?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Canonical (Ubuntu)'s attempt at a software package format. Basically Flatpak but worse.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I've been using Ubuntu for years and I literally had no idea. Admittedly, I don't deal with servers or anything, so I guess some of the stuff coming from their package respositories could be "snap" format and I wouldn't really notice.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    Actually yes, this is exactly the case. And they've done it in a really shady way if you ask me (or Clem, the main guy over at Linux Mint).

    I've been using Fedora on a little tablet I've got, and it uses either .rpm packages or flatpaks. The GUI package manager lets you select which repository it pulls from (either .rpm, or Flapaks can come from Flathub or their own repo, and clearly displays this). If invoked from the terminal, the DNF package manager gets you .rpms, and Flatpak gets you, well, flatpaks.

    Ubuntu uses the APT package manager with .deb packages, and Snap with snap packages. But sometimes if you do an apt-get install, it installs a snap instead. That's some Microsoft level bullshit.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Snaps are containerised software packages.

    They include all of the dependencies for the software to work.

    In my case, I use them when what I'm looking for is not available via apt but it is via snap.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Not all. There are common dependency snaps like several different simultaneous gnome versions.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    True, but they're installed automatically.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    That sounds like packages but worse.