Snaps: a failed experiment

[Sam Varshavchik]

Šarūnas Burdulis writes:

> 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'm fairly confident that it's to reduce any support burden. Bugs filed  
against a snap (because of a transitional package with the same name) are  
closed with a "thanks, but it's not our stuff, go to the Snap store for  
support" boilerplate.

The bright future is where everything is a snap: Firefox, Thunderbird,  
LibreOffice, etc. and no resources need to be allocated to support them.

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