Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu

Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu by AlexCoventry on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:44PM (#23442496)

I don't understand what the big deal is, though. I run ubuntu and I don't run any snaps. This seems to work fine.

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Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu by guug on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:19PM (#23443886)

If you're using desktop ubuntu, you're using snaps. Run `mount` to see which snaps ubunutu has mounted on your system.

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Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu by AlexCoventry on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:38AM (#23445284)

Hmm, interesting. Thanks.

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Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu by KCUOJJQJ on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:15PM (#23442733)

I do the same on 19.10. I also use another Chromium anyway, one that has hardware accelerated video playback.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-...

It's available on Ubuntu 20.04.

Once the regular Chromium had a higher version number than the Chromium in the PPA. aptitude updated to the regular Chromium. I then gave the PPA Chromium a priority of 1000 by creating a file called /etc/apt/preferences.d/saiarcot895-chromium-beta with the following content:

  Package: *chromium*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-saiarcot895-chromium-beta
  Pin-Priority: 1000

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Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu by zapzupnz on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:48PM (#23443018)

The point is that later releases will start forcing snaps on people without their knowledge.

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