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Snaps continue to puzzle me. I have shifted away from Ubuntu (partially because of the attitude attached to pushing snaps) and so I pay less attention than I mi

Snaps continue to puzzle me. I have shifted away from Ubuntu (partially because of the attitude attached to pushing snaps) and so I pay less attention than I might have done previously - but I've never seen anyone from Canonical offer a compelling argument for what benefits snaps offer. Most of the notional benefits of bundled app tools like snap and flatpak have either been refuted or have balancing downsides, so what is left? Just continuing to do it out of stubbornness is a really sad but seemingly quite likely possibility.

geekbird 4y ago
IMO it's just new for the sake of newness. Apt and dpkg work fine, but some folks feel they have to reinvent the wheel, I guess to beef up their resume or be more like MS or Apple. If they want to write MS or Apple style software, they need to just go and work for those companies. Apparently some people think that Linux should be just as deterministic and user limiting as proprietary software. I don't understand it, personally.
matkoniecz 4y ago
Snap is a proprietary system owned by Canonical. The server is not open source, only they can run Snap Store. That is why Canonical pushes it. And `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` CLI log now includes an ad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/1992026 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-t...
- rightbyte 4y ago
  We saw this coming as soon as they included the Amazon ads in the start menu. As they are remotely breaking users' systems too I see no need to recommend Ubuntu as a newbie friendly distro anymore either.