[serengetti]

I've been suckered into that tarpit myself. It's a gruelling and mostly pointless process that is designed to suck the soul out of you and crush any hope of ever getting a job there. It starts almost inviting, but gets progressively disparaging and obscure. After the 6th round of interviews I got zero feedback other than "other candidates were better suited for this position". It's an utter nightmare that any sane person should avoid.

[wkat4242]

It kinda does explain a lot of their decision making though. Like the way they keep soldiering on with snaps that nobody wants.

[ein0p]

“Nobody” is an overstatement. I find the software that is confined and that I can cleanly uninstall pretty valuable. There might be problems with Canonical, but if a gnarly package is available in both APT and Snap, there’s no question as to which one I’d prefer.

[solid_fuel]

Personally I would prefer the tool that allows me to choose when updates will be applied, regardless of the level of isolation. It does look like snapd now finally allows automatic updates to be disabled, as of version 2.58 (so Jan 2023), but it always left a really bad taste in my mouth that the ability to control what gets updated and when was kept out of user control for so long.

[ein0p]

Yeah that’s an issue for some users. But the vast majority of packages are available on apt as well, so you don’t have to use it for packages where this is critical.

[adhamsalama]

The problem is that Ubuntu hijacks some "apt install" commands and converts them to "snap install".

[hedora]

Another problem is that many packages have been sitting waiting for critical bug fixes for months. I'm not sure what their focus is, but they really aren't particularly suitable for use as a desktop or server OS.

A third problem is that the quality of the .deb's they package is low and decreasing rapidly. For instance, they don't seem to understand how to properly configure update-alternatives anymore.

I'm guessing all the above can be explained by establishing hiring bars that aren't good predictors of job performance, and then letting it play out for a decade or so.

[solarkraft]

Like Chromium?

[loloquwowndueo]

Gnarly like this? “Steals your crypto wallet” but the snap is marked as “safe”. https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/