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by oofbey 1552 days ago
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.

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