[olyjohn]

Man, have you actually used the snaps? I don't know how a regular user would stand it. If you just have Firefox and Discord installed as snaps, it's a never ending popup annoyance mess. I can't imagine having more Snaps installed than that. You're told at least twice a day to close Firefox, and then you get told again to close Discord because there's an update for that. Then it says "Fuck you" and updates in the background, even though I didn't want it to, causing the currently running version to crash. Never mind that I was in the middle of something. Oh yeah and it's awesome how your dock icon just quits working half the time after an update, and I get to re-pin it. Not to mention, they start up slow as shit. I hate Windows with a passion, but snap makes Windows Update seem like a great system.

[ASalazarMX]

Ubuntu user since 2006 IIRC. Snaps are not such a big deal. Sure, they're slow to start, consume more resources, they're annoying with updates, and you gotta backup their private snap directory or they will lose your data. I've used Flatpak, containers, the Windows Store, etc., all have warts too.

Still, a regular user running Ubuntu LTS and regular backups will make snaps a non issue, because all OSes have similar annoyances and users learn to work with, or around, them.

Linux is exceptional in the sense that nearly all distros aim to give users more freedom to use their computers, not to corral them into a walled garden to milk them. It won't meet everyone's use cases, but it doesn't force you to choose: you can always use several OSes. It's not marriage.

[28304283409234]

Just merely having the `snapd` running was pushing my machines into high cpu load. No snaps actually installed, only snapd. It is a pox.