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  • Is it? Or is that application just not meant for this tool? You can just deliver the application as a debian package, flatpak or appimage?

    You made it seem like all snaps take 1 minute to cold start and thats why they are bad. Stuff like Firefox, Slack, Discord, Proton stuff, boot marginally slower. Steam takes a little bit (10s for me) but steam always takes a while to boot anywhere.

    Most of these are also persistent. They can’t autoupdate unless they are closed, so that scenario wouldn’t be common.

    Snaps are also really desirable for critical things like Docker or Tailscale. I want my images to roll back if the update fails. How long server apps take to boot kinda doesn’t matter.

    Like they are not a bad tool because they don’t excel in a specific use case which happens to be yours.

    I wouldn’t want to package say the Unreal Engine as a snap, because 1. its huge and would take forever to open and 2. I never want it to update. It would be a bad tool for that job.




  • Snaps nor anything going into the Ubuntu Desktop is targeted for the average home user. It doesn’t make sense to say any of it is “losing” when Ubuntu Server has such a huge market share.

    Snaps really shine in server deployments and support things Flatpaks cannot, like CLI applications or drivers. Really far from a mistake.

    I think by extension though, this has made Ubuntu Desktop the best it ever has. You get debian package support, snaps and flatpaks, rust utils and first class support from third party software providers. And all of that is easily transferable to any server deployment.





  • I wanted to buy some razor blades and the poor teenager at the Walmart just couldn’t get his magnet key thingie to unlock the plastic lock on the hanger holding the packages. I waited patiently for like 5 minutes and was like look I’ll fix it. I pulled down on the packaging, tore the little cardboard piece and freed the blades in like one try.

    I then still paid $40 for them like a good citizen and ignored how much I was getting ripped off.

    All while being watched by a million store cameras, three people at the self checkout, the camera reflecting my own image in the self checkout machine, the greeter giving me a dirty look and the detectors at the door.

    Its more absurd than airport security how pointless it all is.