• auzy1@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    i can’t speak for that… Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too

    From a user side though, that’s because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too

    And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess

    I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn’t really succeed

    • Ghoelian@piefed.social
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      2 hours ago

      There’s some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won’t install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.

      Also the fact that it’s proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.