Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

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[–]tootie 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Glad to hear it. It was my first distro and never failed on me, so it's good to see they're going in a wise direction. I love the idea of containerized programs, but the way Ubuntu is doing it is hostile and anti-open source.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I also am a fan of mint.

I had it on a hot-install USB stick, and a laptop would boot on to the USB stick with default OS settings with nothing installed. And everything worked perfectly every time from the default install with no changes, it was impressive. I used it like that for months.

[–]filbs111 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This goes mostly over my head currently. Being locked into one store seems like a bad thing for the user.

[–]AlphaPepe 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mint supports PPAs, apt repos, appimages, and flatpaks. With all of those working out of the box. Snaps are an attempt to lock you into Canonical's software. It doesn't support 3rd party repos. They replaced quite a few APT packages with shims that install a snap instead. It might as well be proprietary. If you really want snaps you can re-enable them on Mint.

[–]icedream 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

something forced is always fishy, snap is forceful therefore snap is fishy

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Go Mint!

[–]Scrubjay 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Something about how Snap does things behind your back, and how that's a bad thing.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Read the article more carefully. It explains quite clearly why Mint takes issue with Snap.

[–]dissent 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Swapped to popos. Ubuntu without snap. Very happy.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Plus, I think it looks better than Ubuntu.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, this is exactly the info i needed in the first place.

[–]D0z 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good! - doz