The day I went to install something with APT and it forced installed the Snap with no easy way to tell it not to was the last day I ever ran Ubuntu on my PC
I recently tried Ubuntu.
Wait, no, I fought Ubuntu.
Firefox was snap. OK, remove it and apt install. Nope, that installs a snap. Now, one more thing, for some reason uninstalling the snap version of Firefox took several minutes each time where it was “disconnecting” it from a bunch of things, or something along those lines.
So I followed the Mozilla guide for Firefox installation on Ubuntu. Did it work? No. The higher priority setting for Mozilla repo from their guide didn’t work.
Finally, I found the answer on OMG Ubuntu, and I could finally the regular Firefox package.
I had heard the issues, but thought - no big deal, right?
Then I went to run something and it ran weird, so I checked which on the command line - and discovered my apt command had been intercepted and rerouted to snap.
I forget the media (maybe multiple) where someone shoots their robot the first time it ignored a command, but it felt like that.
I reimaged that machine to Debian or Mint shortly after that.
The day they mentioned snaps was the day I grumbled and started recommending mint instead. Or maybe that was the day they crammed sponsored search results into their start menu…
The day I went to install something with APT and it forced installed the Snap with no easy way to tell it not to was the last day I ever ran Ubuntu on my PC
I recently tried Ubuntu.
Wait, no, I fought Ubuntu.
Firefox was snap. OK, remove it and apt install. Nope, that installs a snap. Now, one more thing, for some reason uninstalling the snap version of Firefox took several minutes each time where it was “disconnecting” it from a bunch of things, or something along those lines.
So I followed the Mozilla guide for Firefox installation on Ubuntu. Did it work? No. The higher priority setting for Mozilla repo from their guide didn’t work.
Finally, I found the answer on OMG Ubuntu, and I could finally the regular Firefox package.
i purged snapd and moved to flatpak, its pretty great.
Good luck, a lot of packages in the repos are scripts to install snap and the software through that
i’m mostly just on flatpaks. when the small utils i still use as deb packages get replaced as snaps, its def time to hop.
Same here.
I had heard the issues, but thought - no big deal, right?
Then I went to run something and it ran weird, so I checked
whichon the command line - and discovered my apt command had been intercepted and rerouted to snap.I forget the media (maybe multiple) where someone shoots their robot the first time it ignored a command, but it felt like that.
I reimaged that machine to Debian or Mint shortly after that.
The day they mentioned snaps was the day I grumbled and started recommending mint instead. Or maybe that was the day they crammed sponsored search results into their start menu…
I lost my shit when they first added snaps and I haven’t used it since
Adding them didn’t bother me. Actively subverting my choice to not use them did.