[tjoff]

Somehow when googling software snap will often come up and try to push users to install snap and the software.

Almost feels like malware on every level. Can't comprehend why they are pushing it so hard.

Ubuntu is on borrowed time.

[oofbey]

I have been a huge fan of Ubuntu for a long time. But the way they push snap is really making me question this choice. The more I learn about snap the less I like it.

[unmole]

I switched to Fedora after ~14 year of using Ubuntu as my daily driver. Three months in, it's been absolutely rock solid.

[okasaki]

It seems that sometimes the push is external. A few days ago Canonical announced that they would switch Firefox to snap because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.

[codethief]

> because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.

I doubt this is the whole truth, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800957

[oofbey]

Having a user app like Firefox force autoupdate is not that bad IMHO. Having server infrastructure components update themselves automatically can be disastrous. This caught me by surprise, painfully.

Snap for GUI apps, okay, fine. Snap for system infrastructure, no thank you.

[broknbottle]

It's bad when the user is actively using the application and snapd decides to update the Firefox snap and cause issues.

[tjoff]

Yeah, suffered from this last Friday with firefox.

Quite bad timing and since I surf mostly in private mode I'm not so keen on a restart at inopportune times since my state will be completely wiped.