> I used to defend snap with the idea that it makes sense for some apps, i.e. "firefox" where updating firefox while its running is bad news.
> Except, snap can't update applications while they are running!
What's worse is the unblockable notifications.
And I just de-snapped my xubuntu 22.04 , and doing so upgraded firefox-snap v113 to their repo v116 ! I mean, I thought the purpose was fully updated. Evidently not.
I would urge developers to also take a look at the early "Inside Macintosh" series, which tried to explain Apple's Human Interface Guidelines to programmers. Take a particular look at Vol1-Chapter 2 [1] to see how hard Apple worked to explain how to design consistent and usable apps. All of this advice ("avoid modals", "group commands in menus") seems trivial to us now: that's how GUIs have worked for most of our lives. But prior to Mac most apps looked like vim. These ideas had to be designed and then taught, and Apple spent a huge amount of effort on those books.
> Except, snap can't update applications while they are running!
What's worse is the unblockable notifications.
And I just de-snapped my xubuntu 22.04 , and doing so upgraded firefox-snap v113 to their repo v116 ! I mean, I thought the purpose was fully updated. Evidently not.
Snap needs to die in a fire.
https://haydenjames.io/remove-snap-ubuntu-22-04-lts/