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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Snap doesn’t just bring lots of hate in comments it also brings a lot of bloat in your system which is a big no in Linux community. Another thing is canonical is going out of their way to force snap. In Ubuntu even if you do apt install it is installing snap packages.

    I’m not sure if there are more snap packages than flatpaks or .deb/.rpm but most Linux users are competent enough to either add custom repos or follow simple build instructions to build from source.




  • Other big issue is they didn’t consult the Open source community. They could’ve been just straight with us and told us that donations aren’t cutting it and then community as a whole could’ve come up with something to monetize. And even if it ends up being advertising they could’ve worked with community to implement in such a way that it would respect the try reason why most people switch to Firefox to escape Google’s surveillance. And maybe I can stop daydreaming about an utopia