Submitted 10 months ago by hperrin@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I spent two hours today trying to figure out why Nextcloud couldn’t read my data directory. Docker wasn’t mounting my data directory. Moved everything into my data directory. Docker couldn’t even see the configuration file.
Turns out the Docker Snap package only has access to files under the /home directory.
Moral of the story: never trust a Snap package.
Friends don’t let friends use Snap.
Proprietary when flatpak exists, and it doesn’t properly address how apps should dynamically request access to things they need. Every time I’ve used either solution I’ve run into some permissions problem.
The one thing snap does that flatpak doesn’t is provide CLI applications. But then nix also does that, so snap can go pound salt.
I have stopped using Ubuntu because of this and other Canonical nonsense. It used to be the best too. For a workstation, Mint Cinnamon, for a server Debian headless. God speed with the rest of your setup
This year I finally snapped (pun intended!), and moved to debian 12 on the desktop (after starting on Ubuntu 6.06). It’s so familiar, but somehow more straight forward. Things “just work”, as opposed to the constant niggles I had with Ubuntu.
I also like to run my container platform as a containerized application in another container platform.
Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. “You did what ?”
Why did Docker a snap version in the first place anyway? Did Canonical pester them to do it?
Double-NAT anyone? 3 times the fun, 2 times the work
Snap is one of those things that shouldn’t exist. There’s distrobox (podman) or flatpak both of which are more mature and flexible.
Yah, it’s been trash from the start. I tried it 2 years ago and the unpredictable weird shit it did was useless to try to troubleshoot.
Debian with the Docker convenience script is the way to run Docker.
Docker has an apt repo. You can add it to your Debian/Ubuntu and install and update packages normally. No need to use a script install.
That’s essentially what the script does, then installs all the deps and docker, sets up the service.
Is there a difference between the apt and the install script version?
New Lemmy Post: PSA: The Docker Snap package on Ubuntu sucks. (https://lemmy.world/post/10338192)
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That’s a start, but I need access to both /home and /data.
SiblingNoah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“PSA: Snap sucks”
FTFY