Yeah, did that already on my office computer, still gotta do that at home. However, just to ensure they’d screw over the users, they made sure that upon installing Firefox, snap would be installed again unless i sacrifice a goat.
I so wish Ubuntu would just fuck off with snap, its awful
Yup. Even if you add the official mozilla repos, Cannoical adds a prefix to their version so it always takes precedence over the official release. You have to pin the mozilla repo to blacklist the snapped version.
Same goes for Thunderbird.
I’m sure Snap has some security advantages for many users but they’ve made it so user-hostile for those who use native browser extensions or who want to automate deployments with just one packaging system.
It legitimately is. I saved 14 seconds on my boot time by removing snap. That may not sound like much but when you are just looking at a black screen for 14 seconds after getting past grub, it seems a world of difference.
Honest not sure anymore, I think I’m very used to Ubuntu (more to the point; Debian) mad whenever I’m on, say reshare or cents servers (which basically is Fedora minus the GUI) and I get terribly annoyed with how things are structured.
As a single example: In Debian, config files are split into (typically) subject groups, making it really easy to work with. Fedora doesn’t have this and it’s annoying.
I swear to God, if I ever have to restart my Firefox again because snap without asking updated Firefox again in secret, I’m going to fucking lose it…
You’re going to lose Snap? That is an option, you know.
Yeah, did that already on my office computer, still gotta do that at home. However, just to ensure they’d screw over the users, they made sure that upon installing Firefox, snap would be installed again unless i sacrifice a goat.
I so wish Ubuntu would just fuck off with snap, its awful
Yup. Even if you add the official mozilla repos, Cannoical adds a prefix to their version so it always takes precedence over the official release. You have to pin the mozilla repo to blacklist the snapped version.
Same goes for Thunderbird.
I’m sure Snap has some security advantages for many users but they’ve made it so user-hostile for those who use native browser extensions or who want to automate deployments with just one packaging system.
Anyway, rant over - fuck Snap.
Losing snap is an upgrade.
It legitimately is. I saved 14 seconds on my boot time by removing snap. That may not sound like much but when you are just looking at a black screen for 14 seconds after getting past grub, it seems a world of difference.
use flatpaks instead. snaps infamously suck.
Oh I know.
My Ubuntu installations have as step 1: install Ubuntu, step 2: remove snap
Try Fedora bro trust me bro
Been on Fedora in and off since before it existed, bro. Not a fan, bro
just curiosity, what didn’t you like about it?
Good question
Honest not sure anymore, I think I’m very used to Ubuntu (more to the point; Debian) mad whenever I’m on, say reshare or cents servers (which basically is Fedora minus the GUI) and I get terribly annoyed with how things are structured.
As a single example: In Debian, config files are split into (typically) subject groups, making it really easy to work with. Fedora doesn’t have this and it’s annoying.