I disagree for many reasons, but I realize that nobody on Lemmy really gives a shit since people here react to anything that even smells of proprietary as if it was radioactive.
I dislike it because many new to Linux go to ubuntu and it forces them to use snap which they don’t even know and have bad day because, like, “why does my download not go in the download folder but in some weird folder somewhere?? Linux is just stupid” while it is just snap that is stupid.
Firefox is literally not in Ubuntu’s repos anymore. They didn’t want to maintain it as Mozilla agreed to just make the Snap version that works across all Ubuntu versions and anywhere else.
What should the command do? Just fail? Instead it clearly tells you it’s downloading the snap of Firefox.
In fact if it was up to me I would just get rid of most GUI apps from the repos that have a snap/flatpak equivalent.
I think people do think it should fail. Snap isn’t bad, but when people run a command, they expect it to do as asked, or fail. The fact it does something else breaks that intuition, as it’s doing what it thinks you will want instead.
I disagree for many reasons, but I realize that nobody on Lemmy really gives a shit since people here react to anything that even smells of proprietary as if it was radioactive.
my objection to snaps came before i knew they were proprietary. they actually factually run worse
I dislike it because many new to Linux go to ubuntu and it forces them to use snap which they don’t even know and have bad day because, like, “why does my download not go in the download folder but in some weird folder somewhere?? Linux is just stupid” while it is just snap that is stupid.
sudo apt install firefoxThis is all that needs to be said.
Firefox is literally not in Ubuntu’s repos anymore. They didn’t want to maintain it as Mozilla agreed to just make the Snap version that works across all Ubuntu versions and anywhere else.
What should the command do? Just fail? Instead it clearly tells you it’s downloading the snap of Firefox.
In fact if it was up to me I would just get rid of most GUI apps from the repos that have a snap/flatpak equivalent.
I think people do think it should fail. Snap isn’t bad, but when people run a command, they expect it to do as asked, or fail. The fact it does something else breaks that intuition, as it’s doing what it thinks you will want instead.
With that being said, it’s not a big deal.