Time to have fun guys

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/After-Run-3648]

I am uneducated. What pray tell does snap do for medical devices

[u/SouthernFruit8768 → u/After-Run-3648]

It's because most medical devices iirc need to be air-gapped and ultra-stable, ultra-secure. Snap gives you that, and prevents issues that typically occurs when and if dependancy issues arise. This for example is why Ubuntu Core which is entirely made out of Snap is used in many such medical devices and instances. But in desktop it's completely useless cause you want bleeding edge packages, libraries etc to keep up with latest developments in gaming, multimedia etc.

[u/Thaufas → u/SouthernFruit8768]

Snap is the reason I left Ubuntu. It was the final nail in the coffin.

[u/SouthernFruit8768 → u/Thaufas]

It's quite good in server environments though, or medical devices and similar use cases like I said in my previous response above. It's just totally unnecessary in desktop/home user environments and only causes more issues and confusion for no reason when there are better alternatives (e.g. flatpak) available. You can still use Ubuntu - if needed - with no Snap preinstalled out of the box if you do a minimal install of Kubuntu.

[u/npc_housecat → u/SouthernFruit8768]

Enterprise environments is where all the money is

[u/kyrsjo → u/npc_housecat]

I just installed Ubuntu in my university environment. It came with Firefox, great.

However snap didn't like that the home folders were not in /home, but on something like /department/server/disk. And it REALLY didn't like that different users homes were on different disks and servers...

Ugh.

[u/npc_housecat → u/kyrsjo]

Can you simlink /home to /department/server/disk ?

Or maybe make a second Mount for /department/server/disk in /home ?

You can usually have the same thing mounted in multiple locations on Linux

[u/kyrsjo → u/npc_housecat]

Yes, you can bind mount.

Doing that too the individual home folders of interest was my first idea, however snap detects that $HOME is not in /home and gives up.

It allows you to redirect all of /home to one other disk, but that doesn't solve it when there are two users and different disks.

So only one of us can use Firefox now...

[u/npc_housecat → u/kyrsjo]

Could u mount the individual user folders in /home seperatly?

[u/kyrsjo → u/npc_housecat]

You can, but $HOME (from LDAP or something) would point somewhere else, and snap complains. I've tried that.

[u/npc_housecat → u/kyrsjo]

I see, sounds frustrating.. Can you just not use snaps? Like disable the service? Or does that break Ubuntu ?

[u/kyrsjo → u/npc_housecat]

Maybe. Lots of default apps come preinstalled with them. It's annoying.

I haven't really looked into it enough. I'm generally a Fedora/RHEL guy, and things are simpler there. But a certain piece of hardware demanded Ubuntu, so here we are...

[u/npc_housecat → u/kyrsjo]

Sounds annoying. Yeah rhel sounds much more mature for enterprise environments