I believe the author is (partially) wrong. You can use 'snap revert' to revert to the working version of CLion. For example for the hugo snap. sudo snap revert

I believe the author is (partially) wrong. You can use 'snap revert' to revert to the working version of CLion. For example for the hugo snap. sudo snap revert hugo will revert the hugo snap to the last version. He is right that you have (almost) no control over snap updates. The snap will be refreshed if a new version after the latest is published according to the docs. https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started#heading--revert https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started#heading--revert I am a little disappointed in this. I expected to be able to pin a software version or at least be able to access a lot more than the very last version of a snap. A lot of software publishers (both proprietary and open source) like to break compatibility with plugins that would break your workflow. You may be waiting a while for your plugins to update (or you give up on your plugins once other plugins show up or the new version has matured enough for you to move over). A quick search of Flatpak shows that you can revert an older version and have more options to choose from. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552688/is-it-possible-to-roll-back-a-flatpak-update https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552688/is-it-possib... Also, Flatpak's 'mask' command may allow you to pin a version? https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3078 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3078 Perhaps someone familiar with Flatpak can chime on it. Last I used it Atom was still popular.