Comments on: A Beginners Guide to Snaps in Linux – Part 1 https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Wed, 04 May 2022 10:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Regis Michel LeClerc https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1782777 Wed, 04 May 2022 10:07:37 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=37629#comment-1782777 In many filtering proxy rule bases, snap is considered as a downloader, like apt, dnf and yum. How would you change the user-agent so to pretend it’s Chrome or Safari instead of exposing itself as snap?

]]> By: dragonmouth https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1600212 Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:14:14 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=37629#comment-1600212 In reply to JohnIL.

“Has anybody ever considered that maybe Linux on the desktop could be more appealing with fewer choices??”

Many people have. Unfortunately, none of them are in policy-making positions. Besides, there is the “everybody does their own thing” and “The more, the better” Linux philosophy.

When it comes to Snaps, there is the additional factor of Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth wanting their own version of the software so they can control it. Mir, Unity, Snaps, and many other Canonical-only projects.

“Maybe just consolidate resources on an existing system.”

That’d be great. Linux could be better than Windows or OS/X. But then each Tom, Dick, and/or Harry out there would not get their 15 minutes of “fame”. The choice is Linux’s greatest strength but it is also its biggest Achilles’ heel.

]]> By: JohnIL https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1599573 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:53:28 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=37629#comment-1599573 Yeah, probably the most confusing thing to a new Linux user is how the heck do you install apps and why is this difference between distros? Got to be confusing for someone coming from Windows who installed most things from a download or possibly the Microsoft App store.

Would be nice instead of re-inventing yet another way to do something. Maybe just consolidate resources on an existing system. But then again this is talking to an ecosystem that develops hundreds of distros. Has anybody ever considered that maybe Linux on the desktop could be more appealing with fewer choices??

]]> By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1405471 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 04:51:31 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=37629#comment-1405471 In reply to Confused.

@Confused,

To run an snap application from the terminal, just enter its absolute pathname, for example.

$ /snap/bin/mailspring
OR
# /var/lib/snapd/snap/bin/mailspring
]]> By: Confused https://www.tecmint.com/install-snap-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1404184 Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:29:12 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=37629#comment-1404184 How do you actually run a program you just installed with snap?

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