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by noasaservice 1335 days ago
> I used to defend snap with the idea that it makes sense for some apps, i.e. "firefox" where updating firefox while its running is bad news.

> Except, snap can't update applications while they are running!

What's worse is the unblockable notifications.

And I just de-snapped my xubuntu 22.04 , and doing so upgraded firefox-snap v113 to their repo v116 ! I mean, I thought the purpose was fully updated. Evidently not.

Snap needs to die in a fire.

https://haydenjames.io/remove-snap-ubuntu-22-04-lts/