Snaps: a failed experiment

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 16:29:38 UTC 2025


Hey there,

Liam Proven wrote:

>Snap works fine.

I wouldn't go quite that far. I'd say they work for the most part, but
they're still rather rough around the edges and need work.

For example,  Firefox is still slower to load as a Snap than it used
to be as a direct installation.

For another example that I shouldn't even need to bring up (but here
I am), this Snap bug has been languishing for 9 years untouched by
the Snap team despite being considered of high importance and it's a
regular irritant for many of us to this day every time that we go
into our file systems:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053?comments=all

As you can see, there's been lots of activity by us users:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053/+activity

A little love by the Snap team would be highly appreciated by quite a
crowd.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.



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