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They keep pushing it because it makes it much easier for Canonical employees to package stuff like Chromium.

• timbit42 6y ago
  So users are less important than their employees? Doesn't sound like sound business plan.
  • Avamander 6y ago
    Users are less important than their employees and paying customers. I've been told that rather clearly by a canonical employee in Ubuntu's issue tracker.
  • AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
    Admittedly my source is the Ubuntu podcast, and it would probably take me awhile to find the exact quote, but according to the employees, they previously had one or two employees whose full time job was simply maintaining the Chromium deb package. Switching to snaps made it much easier and freed them up to do other things. I think we should consider snaps like any other framework, be it deb, flatpak, or even something like Electron: some of them have serious downsides, but people choose them because it allows them to more easily push a single binary out to multiple platforms rather than being bogged down in maintaining a distinct build procedure for Windows/Mac/Deb-based/RPM-based/Arch/Solus/every other percent-of-a-percent Linux distro. I don't like snaps either--I much prefer flatpaks. But I don't think it's constructive to insult Canonical employees for wanting to make their own jobs easier while they work to provide you a free product.