I remember one time I installed a lot of themes for my session and I broke something and the themes changed my icon files forever and I had to reinstall Ubuntu!!

Should I just stick to changing my wallpaper and other small tweaks? I don’t really like using vanilla Ubuntu anymore, it doesn’t feel like me. Thank you very much!!

  • adrian rodriguez@lemmy.worldOP
    22·
    11 months ago

    why do some people heavily dislike Snaps?? I don’t see them when I install software, and it doesn’t make Ubuntu slow.

    • nottheengineer@feddit.de
      41·
      11 months ago

      Copied from another comment I wrote about that:

      Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

      Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

      But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

      Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole

        • nottheengineer@feddit.de
          11·
          11 months ago

          Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn’t a good thing. Now you can’t feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.

          • Patch@feddit.uk
            21·
            11 months ago

            Oh, come on. You’re saying that it’s a problem that snaps don’t have immediately obvious performance problems or bugs?

            Let’s not get silly about these things…

    • Stantana@lemmy.sambands.net
      12·
      11 months ago

      The horrors of snap is indescribable, you just have to experience them for yourself. Don’t worry, you’ll know when you’re there.