Gregory's Servergreat now I have to figure out what "snap" is and why it's bad
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@nev mostly I am just sad that I now have many gigabytes of snaps taking up hard drive space for some reason  @darius @djsundog @nev I thought it came from a user centric ask: if you go to the website for say Krita or Inkscape, there is one, maybe two, Windows installers, one Mac installer, maybe store links for one, the other, both. Yet there’s something like a dozen Linux options some are installers with UI, some are package names to look up in a package manager, others are arcane bits of command lines and goat sacrifices. One Snap (or Flatpak w/e) could simplify …   @darius I’m so excited to have found a convenient method of deploying nix on remote machines. Can’t wait to get rid of my last Ubuntu box, just before the snap disaster becomes unbearable. @antifuchs unfortunately I stick to Ubuntu because it's easy for me to google for solutions to most problems I run into (ultimately my problem with other distros I have tried in the last 10 years has been: I do not like spending time on forums tracking down solutions to problems I have) @darius that has been my tendency too: but over the years things change and fixes from forums stop working. This declarative config stuff only changes when I ask it to (:  @darius @antifuchs I would strongly recommend switching to arch, which I did a few years ago largely b/c I got sick of snaps & canonical’s other half-assed projects — it’s the only distribution that’s as well-documented as ubuntu and the community support and approach to package management is much much much better |
@darius you probably want to start here: https://snapcraft.io/