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How Snap is damaging Ubuntu image in Reddit and other social platforms?

Asked by Compiler

The thing is snap tries to enforce itself to boot into boot-time by launching its services.
This increases boot time.
Which is why I use tend to disable all of those services to increase boot time.

Now there are other 2 problems:
i) Canonical supply system application through Snap.
ii) Snap doesn’t let users launch the application which are installed using Snap unless user-run Snap services.

It's like you can’t launch YouTube if Playstore services are not running. And thank God, it's not like that in Android phones.

This is bad, really bad for Ubuntu.

Not to mention:
Apps/Software installed using Snap open/run/execute slower the Apps/Software installed using .deb package / Apt commands.

A good alternative of Snap:
Flatpak, it's open-source, clean, fast and trustable.

God bless Ubuntu.
(Never seen anyone supporting Snap in Reddit. There is always some sort of hate toward it.)

I am a Ubuntu 19.10 users, it been a week I disabled Snap services. Its creating weird glitches.
Glitches like:
1. Screen Tearing (Probably not related to Snap.)
2. Customs shortcuts not responding.
3. Gnome terminal was not able to delete the words from the terminal that is already been written.
4. All running software getting closed all of a sudden.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the question here, please?

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Compiler (pranav.bhattarai) said : 		#2

My question is:

pranav@exam:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.43.3 8689 stable canonical✓ core
core18 20200124 1668 stable canonical✓ base
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-16-g27c9498.27c9498 116 stable/… canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-28-g1503258 1440 stable/… canonical✓ -

My question is when Snap packages/software/application are slower than apk/debian packages, then is it really a good idea to provide the above software/packages/application through snap instead of providing them through Apt repository?

Isn't that directly or indirectly damaging the real speed a user can have on a system when we all know Snap packages lunch slow?

Why Ubuntu is forcing the user to use Snap!?
Preinstalling Snap is not bad idea but preinstalling system apps using Snap is really not a good thing.
By doing this, user can't easily uninstall/remove/disable Snap, do they?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If there is slowness then please report a bug. State what "slow" means and quantify it if you can.

Ubuntu isn't forcing users to use snap in any way, shape or form. I have Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and there is not one single snap on there.

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