[jeroenhd]

Ugh, totally this. Upgrading Ubuntu to 21.04 broke IntelliJ's Chromium debugger because chromium moved from apt to snap (DESPITE installing it through apt!) with the extra sandboxing rules.

The proprietary nature of snap and being unable to install alternative sources without partnering with Canonical/uploading a public package drives me mad.

I've upgraded my desktop install from 16.04 all the way to 21.04 without any issues and I plan on upgrading to 21.10 later this week. However, the moment the setup collapses, I'm moving to something Arch-based. I don't want to deal with snaps and the snap problem is only going to get worse as time moves on. If the snap package manager was completely open source and had self-hostable repositories, I'd consider staying, but right now I might as well use the Windows Store/winget if only the client's source is open and alternate package sources are decidedly not a supported use case.

I've heard good stories about EndeavourOS and my laptop is already running Manjaro. I've got a feeling I might be switching to one of those before the next Ubuntu LTS.