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"Canonical only having snap releases was harmful to adoption. I liked using lxd, but uninstalled snapd (forgetting lxd used it), and my vms obviously stopped. Snap wouldn't reinstall properly (various inscrutable errors), so I moved it all over to libvirt. I'd still be happily using lxd if it weren't for Canonical's snap-pushing. That's my anecdote of one."

-mkj

(I'm not mkj so..., but I think most users are quite against enforcement of snapd)

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[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I removed the snap version of firefox as soon as snap started whining it couldn't update because I was using firefox. And it even seems to start a little faster now that it's installed through a ppa.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah had same issues and moved to libvirtd and virtiofsd

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It's alright. I soothe myself with trivial release upgrades.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having multiple release channels is amazing

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would prefer to have multiple channels so people can test upcoming builds of my software for bugs. It would just be a matter of changing the ci/cd that alot of projects have now to publish in different places depending on the git branch

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Flatpaks already work everywhere including on canonical's OSes, snaps don't work in containerised systems due to nesting

The biggest betefit of flatpaks was no longer having to package your software multiple times, so we don't publish snaps for the open source projects I maintain

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

Seems it's wrong in the end... :/

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

How Canonical seems to keep doubling down on snaps despite large push back from the community reminds me of Reddit's API change. I didn't see an end in sight, which is what pushed me to Fedora.