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    Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I think they would care if they knew the benefits of not having snaps.

    There's little to no advantage in having them, so why have them?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Snaps just create additional confusion

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Do they really cause confusion? Or do they make software "just work" which is much more important to a new user?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    It’s confusing if there are more than one version of an app and the fact that the command to install one installs the other doesn’t make it better

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    There's already more than one version without snap, it's already a confusing mess. Not all distros are compatible with the exact same binaries. And people probably don't want to compile everything form source.

    Snap could potentially unify things, and remove all of that confusion.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    And then Canonical would control Linux apps, sounds like a good idea

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

    well the first one definitely to a new user, the secod one it "just works" in the same way Fallout 76 did.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    it was confusing for me when apt install Firefox installed the snap version

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Flatpaks are just as easy to use without the drawbacks of snaps. There's no reason to use snaps excet for Canonical pushing them on end users.

    And frankly snaps frequently don't work well, that's the entire reason people hate them.