Snaps: a failed experiment

[Šarūnas Burdulis]

On 9/22/25 10:09 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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).

More or less. It is not a precise relationship.

Debian Testing was often too outdated for my users.


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Šarūnas Burdulis
Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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