Snaps: a failed experiment

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM Šarūnas Burdulis
<sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu> 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...

I think the Snap appeal is cross-distribution compatibility. It is
appealing to developers and packagers.

I never acquired a taste for Snap. I don't want to learn yet another
package manager tool. And I don't want to manage its bloat. We had one
server run out of disk space because of an endless stream of Snap
packages being downloaded and older Snap packages never being purged.

Jeff