Today I picked this up indirectly. It's a quote from the Arch Linux
people.
"
as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to
continue to use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. This
breaks one of the major worries many people had when Snap was announced
and a promise from its developers that it would never replace APT.
On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 14:21:12 +0100, Folderol wrote:
Today I picked this up indirectly. It's a quote from the Arch Linux
people.
"To me this means that you should avoid Chrome like the plague and go
as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to
continue to use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. This
breaks one of the major worries many people had when Snap was
announced and a promise from its developers that it would never
replace APT.
back to Firefox or install something like Brave.
I'm damned if I'll install anything that lets outsiders push updates
to my systems. Apart from anything else I like to synchronise backups
and updates, i.e. take a new backup and then immediately run the
system update, but any 3rd party push regime breaks that association.
Today I picked this up indirectly. It's a quote from the Arch Linux people.
At present time — and for over three years already — I am using Manjaro [*], which is Arch-based, but unlike Arch, Manjaro is a curated rolling release. Updates are bundled together and rolled out on average twice a month, with urgent security updates being pushed out immediately. In
all of that time, I've never needed to reinstall, and although I have
run into a few niggles on occasion, I've never encountered any
showstoppers.
So, perhaps it is time for you to switch and join the Manjaruminati? ;)
Remember: Tux is watching you. Tux is ALWAYS watching you. :p
Today I picked this up indirectly. It's a quote from the Arch Linux people.
" as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to
continue to use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. This
breaks one of the major worries many people had when Snap was announced
and a promise from its developers that it would never replace APT.
A self-installing Snap Store which overwrites part of our APT package base
is a complete NO NO. It’s something we have to stop and it could mean the end of Chromium updates and access to the snap store in Linux Mint.
A year later, in the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium package is indeed empty and acting, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store. Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major
differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.
"
The Arch people have sensibly blocked default action of any package installing snap. But if you really *really* want to do that manually you still can... at your own risk of course.
Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> writes:
Today I picked this up indirectly. It's a quote from the Arch Linux people.
It’s from https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906.
snap makes some kind of sense when there isn't any other plausible option than staying on the continuous updates train. Chromium is a good example: there isn't really any LTS for Chromium: to stay current with security updates you *have* to run the latest version. Similarly Electron apps for various web services need to keep up with their websites, otherwise they
will eventually break.
It's not always just needing continuous updates, sometimes software has
a lot of very specific dependencies which might be too new or too old
for your install, or dependencies that are incompatible with some other
large & picky software you need to run; thus some kind of self-contained
blob is useful.
I'm still not a big snap fan, though, even if there is a certain
practicality to it.
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