[GoLUG] Bottles

[o1bigtenor]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM Ron <admin at bclug.ca> wrote:
>
> Omer Zak wrote on 2025-02-22 00:54:
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> > I am curious to know what system problems did you have due to snaps.
> > My own experience with snaps was good, overall.
>
> Likewise.
>
> Snaps and flatpacks (and appimages) are all designed to isolate apps
> from the system, so causing "system problems" would be quite unexpected.
>
You would think but - - - well - - - - my experience.
(I do use appimages but won't touch flatpacks nor snaps.)

Its all about system control - - - snaps resulted in my system
updating when Canonical
decided it would be updated (this was thankfully not my main working system!!).
This included updates that had flaws so that things had to be rolled
back - - - not
something that had been planned for by the snap dev team (at the time at least).
There was recommended a process so that such updating would be held in abeyance.
I set that up and then found that once a month my system would be
forced to its knees.
It was literally forced to shut down. That lasted for three months
whereupon I chose
to get rid of such malware. It was actually impossible to use the
normal apt/dpkg
remove and purge to clean the system. End result after a lot of probing was that
I had to reinstall the system which is most definitely not the *nix
way of doing things.
(And yes I did ask a lot of questions on how to get this done and was unable to
implement any of the suggested options by the snap dev team.)

I believe that Canonical wanted this close tie in to enhance its own
marketability and
thereby its 'value'. All about control for profit. So Ubuntu is a now
a non-issue here.
Am also quite gun shy of any much virtual system stuff as a result as well.

HTH