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You act as if Snap was bad in any way. Proprietary backend does not equal bad.
Edit: Most people don't care about FOSS vs proprietary. And the snap client is FOSS anyways, plus it's capable of installing snaps from local files.
I disagree for many reasons, but I realize that nobody on Lemmy really gives a shit since people here react to anything that even smells of proprietary as if it was radioactive.
my objection to snaps came before i knew they were proprietary. they actually factually run worse