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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] -1 points 1 year ago

its a scam.

there was this jerk working as an intern at red hat. lennart. he made the decision to break the linux dogma: do one thing and do it good. systemd was born. red hat drools. an important step towarda ending open-ness. later snaps. later closing red hat stream. profit.

if you use systemd or snaps you could just fast forward and use apple.

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

Because I can't dismiss the Firefox update notification, no matter how many times I update it.

I've had to reboot every time.

Which, way to go you've reimplemented windows xp era updates.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop the app and run "snap refresh" and it should update anything that's queued

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

yes, I did kill the process and update the image though snap.

this did nothing to remove the update notification that cannot be dismissed without rebooting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, weird. The notification itself disappeared for me when I click it (KDE)

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

maybe they fixed it, I switched to Debian over a year ago.