Are any of you hosting using Snaps?
Deploying snap apps is really easy, but the catalog is quite small. I use one snap app (Ghostscript) for printing server and it works just fine.
Are any of you hosting using Snaps?
Deploying snap apps is really easy, but the catalog is quite small. I use one snap app (Ghostscript) for printing server and it works just fine.
Snaps used to be terrible, I used nextcloud back in the early days of snaps, the performance was truly atrocious.
They’ve spent a lot of time improving snaps so the performance is apparently not as bad, but initial impressions tend to last, and if it’s an application that’s too much of a pain to build a freebsd jail out of I just use docker instead.
I gave them a shot, they disappointed me, and the bs they’re playing with moving all the default Deb apps to snaps is pissing me off more, but, I’m not a cop, and if it’s convenient and works for you, go for it.
I will say setting up nextcloud was basically trivial and functionally worked like a charm, even if again the performance was just garbage back then.
I don’t know when you tried Nextcloud snap. I was using NC Snap on low tier VPS back in 2021 and 2022. For me it was really good experience, and I saw that a lot of people had the same opinion. Unfortunately, snapcraft lacks a lot of apps and even in that small group there are only a few apps that are supported.
Snap apps could be good for a lot of ‘just works’ stuff, but the app catalogue is tiny. Hardly any of the app catalogue is kept up to date.
Way longer, I was running it on serious hardware back in 2016 or so, maybe 2018? It was painfully slow, barely usable and I wasn’t even putting any load on it.
But it’s made huge strides since, and as I said, if it works for you, go for it.