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    Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Snaps:

    On server = good

    On PC = bad

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

    Hell no. I can't have my server updating itself without explicit approval, randomly breaking shit at any hour of the day.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Snap is basically Dockers right?

    I hated it and it made me switch to debian, I don't see the point to install all dependencies for each apps, I guess they don't want to deal with package dependencies anymore, so let's install the same version of python 10 times

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    It's supposedly containerisation, but not really docker. After all, docker itself merely presents the OS's underlying feature in a somewhat more accessible way (keyword: somewhat).

    Snap is more like a big ecosystem around that idea that breaks everything that should work in that context, is a security nightmare and is sold as "work anywhere" but really only work in one place, which developers could have targeted in the beginning without having to rely on Snap to begin with.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I would actually benefit from beig able to keeps different versions of dependencies rn. Got a deprecated software wich forces me to exclude a package from my updates.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Snaps just don’t really work very well. When I have had problems in the past and gone looking for answers, what I consistently find is that the problem is fixed by installing the non-snap version of . I love containers but if I am going to use them I want to have control over how they are configured and that they have access to.

    Or at least if I don’t control them I just want them to work, and they never do. I would use them if they weren’t consistently shit.