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Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

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some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

I just can’t… like maybe I’m too old and that’s why I still can’t wrap my head around how we went from “./configure && make & make install scripts are almost the de facto way to install software in linux” to “a sketchy install script”. We’re living interesting times at Linux

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Blame the thousands of supply chain attacks.

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Last time I ran a corporate-made installer, it caused massive graphical glitches and lock-ups after waking from sleep. It basically gave my system computer-AIDS.

That’s why I never run scripts which are too long for me to easily understand outside a sandbox. Official distro repositories and Flatpaks are the only sources I have some level of trust in.

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I’d rather be able to use my web browser uninterrupted without it being updated while using it and be forced to restart it.

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I would prefer manually writing each software using butterflies over having snapd installed on my system.

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obligatory “there is always a relevant xkcd”

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Very unpopular

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And what do they offer over flatpak?

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