i recently upgraded ubuntu and had to start dealing with snaps.. of the two i tried to install they were both out of date and i ended up using apt to great success. what was the point of this thing?
Someone looked up from his workstation, put a finger in the air and said: Containers are Cool, Windows 10 is cool, what if we made Containers like Windows 10 and then mounted them like Mac mounts installation files!
Which two? I mean, a package is only as good as its curator. That sounds more like a complaint about Ubuntu's Snap update policy or the community support for whatever you were trying to install than anything about Snap.
I don't understand the fuss here. People who want control over the open source software they install still have it, it still works like it always has. People who don't care can't even tell the difference.
And in a handful of situations, like large apps with extensive dependencies, or externally managed builds, or needs for cross-distro binary compatibility, Snap has real and tangible advantages.
I think the issue here is that the apt versions are not always maintained after an app moves to snap releases.
> And in a handful of situations, like large apps with extensive dependencies, or externally managed builds, or needs for cross-distro binary compatibility, Snap has real and tangible advantages.
I see that snaps can offer these advantages, but so can AppImage and FlatPak, and these are even more cross-platform and don't come with the same limited ecosystem.