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by xet7 1792 days ago
I love Snaps:

- When there is new security fix, like new version of Node.js, I release new version of Wekan https://wekan.github.io and all those about 9000 servers worldwide are updated automatically soon and safe from that vulnerability. Wekan migrations upgrade database schema etc automatically.

- When Snap is upgraded, it upgrades very fast, compared to Docker

- Snap does not have layers taking big amount of disk space, like Docker

- Snap sandbox works very well. Snaps with strict confinement (like Wekan) can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory.

- Snaps are the reason to select Snap compatible distro https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd .

Is there any other automatic update system like Snap? AFAIK other update systems require manual steps to update.