Snaps: a failed experiment

[Bret Busby]

On 22/9/25 21:33, Šarūnas Burdulis wrote:
> 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.
> 


I understood that Ubuntu LTS is the equivalent of Debian Stable, and 
that the non-LTS versions of Ubuntu (24.10, 25.04, 25.10) are the 
equivalent of Debian Testing, and, that Debian Sid is Debian Unstable 
(and, Debian RC-Buggy is Debian Experimental, according to 
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Codenames).

I could be wrong in my understanding...

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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