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Comment by arboghast

A bit of a tangent, but I'm not a big fan of Snaps (or Flatpaks for that matter). Whenever I tried to use them, I ran into issues as soon as I need to do some changes in the configuration.

Take Firefox on the latest Ubuntu for example, it installs as a Snap. Unlike the APT package (or any other package manager) version, the usual ~/.mozilla/ directory changed location. This broke some of my customization scripts and other people's scripts I'm using such as https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

I would really, really, like if both Flatpaks and Snaps could keep the usual program's config directories. Then I would likely use them often because they have big advantages (especially Flatpaks) over package managers, especially for dependencies.

parent arboghast 4 years ago

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