Ok so you tell me where I am wrong - why not, FUD needs to be broken.
But what do you say about how « software » works regarding snap ?
And how it cheats on users by not showing upfront who is a snap and who is not or who is something else.
About being more friendly, self-explanatory about permissions and features ?
Like pointing users towards the permissions page ( in software or settings/applications in control-center or a dedicated app ) at first launch.
About a full featured GUI for managing anything snap-related ?
Interfaces, devices, restore, theming… name all.
I did not say there are no improvements. I do say that UX about snap for average people is bad because it’s not enough desktop designed - with UI that that gives the needed trick at the right moment.
I don’t know how to translate the concept of « parcours client », maybe « customer’s path », well « try walking in my noob’s shoes » and see any details that may harm the adoption process, user’s side.
On 20.04 I had to spend time to have my Chromium accordingly themed with my DE, had to come here for asking Audacity be in my language, and thumbnails for .xcf files generated by Gimp are not used outside of Gimp. I thank the enthusiast people from here and budgie and ubuntu-fr forums who helped me fix some of these.
Yes these are details but these make average Joe thinks snap is broken. Exactly like shipping a calculator that took dozens seconds to launch was the worst ambassador for snap some time ago. Or shipping snap by default in LTS Ubuntu versions, letting people imagine it’s as easy as legacy APT/.deb route. It’s still not.
Snap in themselves are not the problem. It’s more about the « selling » / marketing strategy and ease of use for normal people ( hear : non-IT, non-dev people ). Snap are certainly a relief for dev’s. Not yet for users. Hence not a surprise some distro don’t want to deal with disappointed users because of snap. As long as the « customer’s path » is not friendly addressed.
Chicken or egg first…
Now what are these, if no extra storage needed :
--- /home/django ---------------------------------------------------------------
1,1 GiB [##########] /.cache
713,0 MiB [###### ] /snap
382,0 MiB [### ] /Logiciels
263,4 MiB [## ] /.local
212,3 MiB [# ] /.icons
161,5 MiB [# ] /.mozilla
84,4 MiB [ ] /.thunderbird
(…)
and
--- / --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. 486,9 GiB [##########] /media
7,9 GiB [ ] /usr
. 5,5 GiB [ ] /home
. 3,3 GiB [ ] /snap
. 2,8 GiB [ ] /var
(…)
It looks like an amount of 4 GiB of storage is used by snap, doesn’t it ? Given I only use Chromium, Gimp and Audacity it looks a lot. Would stop using snap free that space or not ?