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  • terryhancock@realsocial.lifeundefined terryhancock@realsocial.life

    @JoannePaixa

    I don't like the sandboxing.

    I don't like the enforcement of system folder structure.

    Linux Standard Base is great for Linux distributions -- and as the name suggests, it's a good *base*.

    But for a production environment, there are good reasons to manage projects on separate high-level disk mounts. And if other people don't like that, that's fine -- but when they try to dictate that to me, that's an overstep. I won't put up with it.

    And the sandboxing system makes a horrific mess out of the output from "df" with all the loopback devices. I literally had to get in the habit of filtering out loopback devices with grep to see the status of my real disk mounts.

    I found this infuriating, and the Ubuntu commitment to Snaps was an irreconcilable difference for me. So I left for a distro that didn't do this to me.

    AppImages don't do this stuff. I don't have experience with Flatpak. But I also don't really get what's wrong with just using APT.

    Perhaps this makes me a curmudgeon?
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    valhalla@social.gl-como.itundefined

    @TerryHancock @JoannePaixa my guess is that using APT it's harder for people to sell you their proprietary apps

    I'll just keep using APT from the distribution repository, thanks, and yell at those youngsters

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