I see people hate snap packaging and removing it if their OS support it. Is it because it’s NOT fully open-source or just due to how the technology works?

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  • @rutrumA
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    421 year ago

    Examining my disk partitions with df is ruined now. Every snap gets its own virtual disk.

    • 1337
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      91 year ago

      Ha I was just listening to the Linux Unplugged podcast and the guy was just complaining about this same thing

    • @cmeerw@programming.dev
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      81 year ago

      I wonder if that could easily be fixed by just filtering the output of df to not show virtual disks (df already has an -l option to only show local disks, so would expect that changing df could be relatively easy).

      Note: I am not saying that I like snaps…

    • @Jagger2097@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      It seems incredibly shortsighted to go this way. Sure 1 or 2 is fine, but when the whole os is snaps it’s abusing the system.

    • @pazukaza@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Just create an alias that filters loop devices. I mean, if this is your only problem with snap, you can fix it in a second. But I’m betting you have other problems with it.