I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?
Update: fixed typos
I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?
Update: fixed typos
Perhaps it’s been fixed since, but a this type of thing was the main issue with snaps to me:
“Why can’t the program see the printer? Ubuntu can see the printer”
“Why can’t I save to this USB pen? It can’t even see it”
“These two programs are meant to work together, but they can’t see each other”
“I can’t open my project from my external drive”
“It won’t let me import the photos from my camera. It can’t see the camera”
Would have been less of an issue if they had an android-style permissions pop-up with each incident, but snaps just left you silently failing.
This was the most frustrating for me as well. While I appreciate Snap trying to be a universal installer of sorts, it breaks too often to be useful.
There is absolutely such a thing as too much sandboxing, and flatpak is already pushing the limit.