Just want to chime in as another Ubuntu user who's ready to jump ship after 10+ years because of snaps. I hadn't really considered the philosophical issues aro

Just want to chime in as another Ubuntu user who's ready to jump ship after 10+ years because of snaps. I hadn't really considered the philosophical issues around it but you have a good point about that. For me it comes down to QA and QoL. Snaps are shit. I'm still getting those ridiculous "Close Firefox to update Firefox, this will expire in 13 days" nags that can't be dismissed. The other day snapd felt like hanging up my laptop for 90 seconds when I was trying to shut down and get out of the door. Fuck this. 90% of what Canonical has done has never bothered me, oh there's an Amazon lens I don't like? 2 minutes to uninstall it, no prob. Oh there's a plug for Canonical services in the motd? That's fine, they need to make money. But snapd is just trash software that's badly engineered, makes my system worse and is hard to remove (I'd have to replace a bunch of software that Canonical has pushed me into using snaps for). So barring some about face from Canonical I'm switching to another Debian variant on my next reinstall.