Snaps: a failed experiment

[Liam Proven]

On 22/09/2025 2:33 pm, Šarūnas Burdulis wrote:

> Not sure what problem was being solved at Ubuntu that they came up with 
> snaps. 

Really? It's easy and simple to explain. Are you willing to listen or do 
you just want to rant?

> As an admin I hated snaps from the beginning. 

Then I question your admin skills, because they fix very real and 
serious problems with both app distribution and version-to-version OS 
upgrades.

 > Just a horrible > architecture to start with.

Au contraire. Simple, clean, and elegant, unlike the festering mess of 
Flatpak.

 >  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.

Then you should be using a different distro.

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