[Bug 1965535] Re: Stop recommending snap

[Wolfgang]

+1

Agree with the other affected users. The project is not ready to be
forced on Ubuntu users - maybe never will. Personally I have two main
issues that I can not accept:

1) Forcing automatic software updates without user consent.

2) Putting a hardcoded visible folder into the user home directory
without the option to change it.


Wish Ubuntu all the best and am very thankful for being my go-to for 17+ years. May those executive decisions make Ubuntu appeal to a broader audience and bring on many new users.

Me - personally - I'm expecting to sadly switch distribution with one of
the next releases. Once uninstalling snap begins to affect the system in
a mayor way.

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Title:
  Stop recommending snap

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Currently, ubuntu recommends installing snap by default, and some apps
  are slowly transitioning from DEB-based installation to Snap-based
  installation.

  APT is great, and facilitates having a clean, maintainable system.

  The snap project is not very well designed or engineered (just
  changing the location of where snap data is located is taking the
  project more than 5 years because it was hardcoded:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575053). Snaps are large and
  VERY slow. The design of snap, as well as the way that decisions are
  made, are very questionable, and are receiving increasing amounts of
  criticism.

  I'd like to request that Ubuntu stops recommending snap, stops
  transitioning towards snaps, and we come back to defaulting to
  DEB/APT-based installation for all apps.

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