Snaps: a failed experiment

[Jeffery Small]

Another Firefox snap problem I ran into a long long time ago was that if
you don't have your $HOME directly under /home then it simply would not
work.  I've since seen comments that they fixed something that allowed
$HOME to be deeper than the top layer, but as far as I know they never
fixed the problem if your home directory was elsewhere completely.  I've
had my home directories under /u for over 50 years, long before /home was
even a thought in someone's mind, and I'm not going to change it just to
accommodate idiot programming that has little respect for the UNIX design
philosophy.  This was the issue that caused me to reject the snap model.

Regards.


Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> writes:

>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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