[arch-general] snapcraft

[Piscium]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 09:36, Zero via arch-general
<arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Has anybody here experience with snapcraft (https://snapcraft.io).
>
> It seems to be an alternative installing packages on a (Arch) Linux system.
>
> That is an alternative, addition to pacman.
>
> Of course I don't want to compromise my Arch Linux system and therefore
> I am curious if anybody has experience with it ?

My main distro is Arch, but I also have Ubuntu installed in other
partitions (for booting, building Lineage OS, for tests, etc).

In one of my tests I installed chromium on Ubuntu, as it is available
only in a snap. The problems I found is that the chromium snap on
Ubuntu compared with chromium on Arch is very slow to start and uses
tons of RAM and disk space. Moreover if you do lsblk -f you will find
complicated directory structures. I like to keep things not too
complicated. If you search Reddit you will find many threads about the
pros and cons of snaps and comparison with other solutions. After my
tests I uninstalled snaps and snapd!