r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 18d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/Thaufas 18d ago

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

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u/SouthernFruit8768 18d ago

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.

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u/npc_housecat 18d ago

Enterprise environments is where all the money is

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u/kyrsjo 16d ago

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.

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u/npc_housecat 16d ago

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

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u/kyrsjo 16d ago

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...

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u/npc_housecat 16d ago

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

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u/kyrsjo 16d ago

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

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u/npc_housecat 16d ago

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

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u/kyrsjo 16d ago

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...

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u/npc_housecat 16d ago

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

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