I recently had to install Certbot on a CentOS 8 server and discovered that the Certbot documentation recommeds using Snap (for almost every popular GNU/Linux re

I recently had to install Certbot on a CentOS 8 server and discovered that the Certbot documentation recommeds using Snap (for almost every popular GNU/Linux release). They have their reasons[1]. I figured it was time to investigate using Snap and the benefits it could provide. While researching, I found many users reporting that forced updates of software installed by Snap caused many problems and I decided against using it; I was able to install Certbot via a good old-fashioned RPM from EPEL. I also removed Snap from a different Ubuntu server which had recently been upgraded to 20.04 (I wasn't using LXD on that server so there was no need for it). 1. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-install-certbot-without-snap/137634 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-install-certbot-w... FWIW, I've been allowing Apt and Yum package managers to automatically update for about 8 years without any problems. The only manual OS updating I do is for a set of physical (non-virtual) servers that are operational 24/7.