• @[email protected]
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    69 hours ago

    I have NODE installed using snap lmao. Why? Installing it the normal way just gives me tons of errors that I’m too bored to deal with. I’m sure there’s a fix, but I’m too lazy to debug all that. Of course, I don’t use snap node for hosting servers and stuff. I just use it for react native. Regardless, it works n I’m happy lol

    • @MajorHavoc
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      88 hours ago

      Yeah. I don’t mind snap at all for cases where a better package doesn’t exist.

      What made me give up Ubuntu was how it railroaded me into snap versions of packages that work better, for me, as native .deb installs.

      • @[email protected]
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        68 hours ago

        Oh definitely. Canonical forcing us to use snap Firefox was very shitty. I mean I still use Ubuntu because I’m lazy, but I did change the snap Firefox thing to the apt libraries or whatever.

        I really don’t understand why they don’t just adopt flatpak.

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          I don’t believe Flatpak has the ability to package something like node. It certainly can’t package kernels or system services (at least not without leaving the user with a ton of manual work to do that would make it not much better than getting a tarball).