Personally, I think most of the hate directed towards snapd is entirely justified. I’d like to have a beer with some of these fellows who commented, as they seem like funny dudes.
I wonder why?
If one is hated by so many, at a certain point, it stopped being everyone’s fault and became one’s own fault. Don’t pretend like Canonical is some poor underdog being bullied by mean trolls. It’s a big corporation that has done some incredibly shady stuff. They don’t get my pity, and they shouldn’t get yours either.
Of course, people who use malware typically do that because they are not aware of the fact what they are using is malware. Most people who criticise windoze or mac stopped using using windoze or mac. It’s absurd to suggest that only users of snaps are allowed to criticise it. In fact, one could rightly say to such people: “if snaps are so bad, why are you using them?”.
snapd is malware, pure and simple.
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