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by kstenerud 2210 days ago
I wanted to love snaps. I really did. I like the idea of a self-contained program that doesn't get into DLL hell, and can't stomp all over my system if it misbehaves, and can be cleanly uninstalled.

Unfortunately, snap comes with all of these extra issues that happen when the developer isn't empathizing with the user. Also, much to my chagrin, snaps don't actually uninstall cleanly, and can really hoop your system. I now install snaps INSIDE of an LXC container so that snap can't misbehave and break my system, or else if I can I just use apt with a custom repo (for docker because the snap is awful). Ubuntu 20.04 will probably be my last Ubuntu system, and that's a shame... I really liked it.