Snaps: a failed experiment

[Šarūnas Burdulis]

On 9/21/25 6:41 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ok, I had enough, and finally uninstalled the firefox snap, and hooked 
> up the mozzilateam PPA in order to actually be able to use Firefox in a 
> VNC desktop.
> 
> [...]

Not sure what problem was being solved at Ubuntu that they came up with 
snaps. As an admin I hated snaps from the beginning. Just a horrible 
architecture to start with. So in Ubuntu servers and workstations which 
I manage, the first thing after install or upgrade is to check whether 
snapd is present and then purge it. Reminds of windows back at the turn 
of the century, when one in two of automatically installed services had 
to be removed… So after two decades of using Ubuntu as a “stabilised 
Debian unstable” we are gradually turning back to Debian Sid.
-- 
Šarūnas Burdulis
Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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