Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by codethief on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:30PM
(#24385303)
Wait, since when is Signal a Snap app?
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by Spooky23 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:12PM
(#24386528)
Snap is more like a virtualization tool that you see in VDI and Citrix environments.
It’s sets out to solve a couple of problems in an app-focused way. As with any packager that packages dependencies, it introduces a few dozen more in the process.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by kohtatsu on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:55PM
(#24385481)
Snap is a distribution format, akin to .msi or .pkg.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by yc-kraln on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:56PM
(#24386428)
No, incorrect. Snap is a distribution format akin to VMDK or anything else which is not intended to be "installed" to a system, but rather run in a virtual machine or sandboxed.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by SahAssar on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:47PM
(#24386730)
If we are getting into details I think calling it a "virtual machine" is not correct either. Also since snaps have some integration with the host DE through launchers and so on they are not like VMDK's.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by efreak on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:40AM
(#24389471)
To be even more pedantic, there's nothing stopping you from using VMDK (or other disk images like VDI, VHD, raw/dd, etc) files as a container (like tar or zip), other than some extra overhead. They can easily integrate into your desktop environment, possibly even easier since there's probably more support for mounting disk images than there is for mounting archives...
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by SahAssar on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:31AM
(#24390135)
Well, a squashfs file is already a disk image, so that's pretty much what they are doing.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by sunnysigara on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:45AM
(#24389973)
Snap is already a standard in the IOT world. It's the desktop section in which it struggles.
I've had this glyph issue for over a year. In chromium, Signal, some ebook app, and several other snaps.
I've tried many things. But gave up. Snap is not 'one layer of indirection' too much. It's hundreds of them. There's chroot, some VM, a virtual gnome, containerisation, weird user and permissions. And so on.
This complexity made me conclude that snap is a bad solution (to a real problem). Not the glyph issue, but the fact that I cannot fix it, is, for me, the reason to conclude it has, or will fail.