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		gustavus on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of... I have never had a snap package I've installed that I didn't have to immediately uninstall and find the .deb for because the snap ran into a bunch of weird issues. I hate snap I hate whoever thought it was a good idea and I hope they constantly have bump in their sock that they are unable to fix that does not relieve until the day they get rid of snaps.

mindslight on Nov 1, 2023 | [–]

Some people, when confronted with systems problems, think "I know, I'll make another system in a container". Now they have twice as many problems.

baggy_trough on Nov 1, 2023 | [–]

That's really too kind to the snap designers.

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