I'm probably going to get a lot of explanations in the comments

I'm going to create a distro where EVERYTHING including your web browser is launched through systemd and it's built from nothing but snaps, just for you guys. I'll call it "Oops! All snaps."

Bruh, more like I was already using Ubuntu, and then they uninstalled my firefox and replaced it with a snap.

I have no idea why people still use Ubuntu when all the news and talk about it has just been negative the last few years.

From the context of this thread, I have no idea what a snap is

and I'm conflicted on whether I should inquire

Fwiw, pop!_os doesn't have snapd by default but has a Ubuntu feel. Flatpak support is by default with their app store.

people get way too riled up over this

I would love to love snaps, it seems so easy, but for some reason it always is super buggy once stuff is installed. I installed and removed docker via snap like 5 times in a one month period before just using apt and haven’t had an issue in months.

It was weird because I set a static ip for my server on my local network via my ASUS router (e.g. used the admin console to set the locks up to 10.0.0.5 instead of the 10.0.0.49 it was). After a couple days docker would freak out and refused to work because it kept looking for stuff on 10.0.0.49. I would have to reset some config files then it would work again. Finally gave up and used apt and haven’t had an issue since

I liked snaps until I tried them

Aw, Snap!

How does the fediverse feel about flatpak?

I hate snap. On my installation of Ubuntu, snap applications can only access non-hidden directories and only certain directories in home. This is Microsoft Windows levels of bullshit and I just can't have it. I switched to Arch just to escape snap.

Because my work literally forces me to use Ubuntu Desktop on server VMs if I don't want to use Windows. Yes, it sucks, yes, they don't know what they are doing, no, they won't give me other options.

Tbh, the meme isn't wrong. If you strongly dislike snaps, get a different distro.

That's the cool thing about Linux based systems: There are enough for everyone and you can customize them any way you want. Just get something that fits your taste.

Ubuntu didn't have snaps when I installed this system ...

I've been using Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 daily for years now without any Snap issues. I haven't once had any problems and I have 20 snaps installed.

I will never understand this controversial stupidity, why people can not use what they want and this without having "prejudice"?

Snap is just flatpak but worse for most cases (the only exception being cli apps). The fact canonical are pushing it so badly makes Linux more fragmented for no real reason.

Just accept that Ubuntu uses Snap for its packages. Same as other distros use other packages solutions.

Didn't we see similar snap memes yesterday and the day before?

Man, ubuntu has gotten so bad in past years. I wanted to hop a distro (a long time user) but couldn't get the live environment load. Any other ubuntu derivative works just fine. But not ubuntu.

you know you can uninstall and purge snap and everything related to it and still use Ubuntu

Picking up some popcorn 🍿

Gentoo doesn't snap, it runs smoothly

Work laptop comes with Ubuntu. Don't ask me why.

Hey let's install a tiny little command with snap!

3 houweurs laturrr...

Aaaaand we're still doing something, are we even downloading yet?

Snap sucks sooooo bad.

Mint would be the primary choice for a non-snap *buntu.

I got a good laugh from this. Thanks OP