[mkurz]

Same here. Ubuntu user since the beginning (2004). Switched to Arch half a year ago, will never look back. I don't understand why Ubuntu tries hard to scare away users from what used to be a solid OS with things like Mir, Unity, snap,... Even now the modified Gnome it comes with by default. I don't get it.

[pmontra]

I think that they are looking for a way to make money. A snap app store managed by them could be a source of cash. I'm still on 20.04 and maybe I'll switch to Debian or PopOS. I need to find the time to experiment. I'll buy a second SSD and dual boot.

[gexla]

With open source apps though? My guess is the idea of a store is a commonly known UX (App store, Play store.) And the snaps give you a way of installing more updated versions of software than the package repos provide.

[pmontra]

I'm fine with the repos. After all what am I using? Firefox (I know how to switch to PPA), Thunderbird (with the features that were there 10+ years ago), LibreOffice. Slack is a snap and customers use it. Server side stuff is usually docker. Languages have their own package manager or an asdf plugin. Emacs is apt-get. Is GIMP still an apt? It seems they are going for flatpack https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Not a fan of that too.