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by eternityforest 939 days ago
It does seem to work 99.9% of the time, but when you have a dozen programs with more dependencies than you can count, some are not in the official repos, and you want more up to date stuff, being able to reproduce the whole environment of a package seems like the best option to me.

Deb packages are rock solid for the most part if you use standard distro packages, but the moment you want something newer or third party, there's no guarantee it will work well with some other random third party thing you also have.

Especially when sometimes apps might even depend on bugs and break when they get fixed.

Snaps mostly solve the reduced integration issues(Or at least try to, some stuff isn't perfect yet?) with all their plugs and interfaces and whatnot.