[severino]

> What's peoples aversion to snaps in the thread?

In my case, because it's being forced and replacing applications that worked out of the box with applications with issues. Firefox, for example. After it became a snap, you'll see a message telling you to close Firefox so it could update itself (?) but simply closing it is not enough and, last time I checked, it looked like you had to run some command line to solve it. Also, due to its sandboxing, external hardware like smart card readers didn't work in the snap version, so I couldn't log into e-government websites anymore.

I ended up installing the tarball version...

[hospitalJail]

Eh Firefox probably isnt the best example due to security being so important.

Something like an IDE is a better example since its not much of an attack vector.

[severino]

You mean Firefox is a good fit for a snap due to security reasons? In that case they should've made the experience seamless, and provide the same functionality you get when using Firefox from the deb or the tarball, before pushing it like that.

Because otherwise, the result is people pissed off with that change.