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I haven't used Ubuntu recently, hadn't heard of snaps, and this entire thread has been a horrifying introduction.

• yamtaddle 4y ago
  The whole snap thing is clearly doomed anyway. It's got no chance of "winning" the new wave of app distribution on Linux, being easily the most-hated of the three taking any kind of similar approach (AppImage, Flatpack). Canonical just hasn't thrown in the towel yet, for whatever reason.
  • jrumbut 4y ago
    In my brief introduction to it, there seems to be an impedance mismatch between snaps and the entire philosophy of Linux (and Unix more generally). When a program tries to build it's own little world without consideration for the conventions of the operating system it creates all sorts of problems and doesn't allow the user to leverage its functions as part of a complete system like they can with programs that follow the decades old Unix patterns. What I'm saying is if Canonical wants to be in the Snaps business, perhaps they should make SnapOS.