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I like Flatpak and despise Snap (on a personal computer, it's tolerable on a server) enough to sudo apt remove and purge snapd from a new installation. The startup time is slow and I hate having snaps as mountpoints. It doesn't help that Firefox is by default a Snap on Ubuntu - it feels as if you're starting it on a mechanical HD with a Core2Duo processor and you can really appreciate how stupid having such a core app as a browser is as Snap when you add the PPA and install it as a deb package. Don't even get me started on the asinine "we update when we want to" that makes you restart your browser at most inopportune times. I hate Snap so much it's unreal.
I feel exactly the same and stopped using Ubuntu entirely once they started using apt to install snaps. Have you recently purged Ubuntu of snaps? Last time I tried it was an absolute nightmare to upgrade.
We remove snap as a first thing on new server installs, and other than the few dormant folders left behind we have 0 issues. Once that stops working we’ll move to Debian I wanna switch now but need something like this to get the rest of the team onboard.
I don't upgrade Ubuntu, just unmount home, tar the configs for reference and install the new one. I've lost more time in the past to hunting gremlins on an upgrade than doing a clean install and applying my configs.
Actually snap desktop may be alright. I tried Ubuntu core os and the performance isn't so bad
I've heard the PPA for Firefox is a Snap now as well, FYI.
Don't believe everything you hear. It's still available as a .deb: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Well, thanks for correcting me. Always better to have accurate information.