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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:28PM (#23434761)
Why does it matter that it's a snap? Does the program work?
Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by jedieaston on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:09PM (#23435053)
The really annoying thing about snaps is that they pollute the mountpoints on the system. I’ve had as many as 100 mounts on a box after installing just a few snaps, which is super annoying if you ever want to try to get an idea of disk usage. God forbid you want to figure out what lvm volume can get shrinked.

There’s also not as much screening before an update is allowed, as there would be for the default Ubuntu repos (considering that 1-2 years into a LTS release you’re probably bringing in dependencies from PPAs anyway, I don’t know if this matters much).

Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by m463 on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:34PM (#23435213)
I wish there was a "df" had a flag for just "real filesystems" (maybe there is and I don't know it).

sort of like df -t ext4 -t ext3 -t vfat ...

Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by jcastro on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:06PM (#23435875)
`alias df='df -x"squashfs"'` should do it.
Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by desas on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:27PM (#23435180)
webusb doesn't work in chromium snap, I haven't noticed anything else.