The most annoying thing for me was the huge internet data usage by snap updates but it is better now.
Even though it showed 300mb for a Firefox update, but only consumed 80mb and everything updated and working wonderfully ! 😅 😍 👑
The New app store is beautiful 🙌
(just sharing my experience 😅 )
You are correct. When on Ubuntu I tried to remove the entire snapd system but as soon as I ran an update it the system reinstalled it
So I immediately moved to Mint. And now that LMDE 6 became available I immediately moved to that. And I couldn’t be happier. Works great.
Makes sense. I’ve been pretty excited about snap on desktop since 2014-15 since it promised to deliver Android-style unbreakable software update capability that finally unlocks updating parts of the system out of band and safely. I switched to snap from all the PPAs I used in 2016. GIMP, Inkscape, etc. I think I was able to get rid of the remaining PPAs in 2018. No package breakage since then, trivial OS upgrades. My main machine has been upgraded through every LTS since 14.04. It’s glorious. Yes there were some bugs with snap itself and missing features, cough… “pending update notification” …cough, but that’s par for the course for any system under development and I’ve never seen a real showstopper so far. Flatpak is also useful of course and I do use it but it can’t do system components as far as I know.
Thank you for sharing that because you do make a great and important point about snaps, namely that they can replace unsecure PPA’s with secure Snaps. That sounds like the best argument for Snaps.
Personally I didn’t have a problem with the Snaps themselves, but the forcing me to use it cough… “Firefox” …cough…
At least have Firefox in the apt repo so people have a choice. That’s literally** what the Free Software movement is about: the user has the choice and power. Not the dev or even the machine.