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On Intellij, JetBrains are producing themselves snap packages for their whole range of products. It makes it so easy to install on your system, and updates happen automatically.

Here is their initial announcement, https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2017/11/install-intellij-ide...

Here is the snap package page for Intellij Ultimate, https://snapcraft.io/intellij-idea-ultimate You can see the usage stats and also the list of other JetBrains packages.

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Thanks for the information, I don't think that for my use case is is an improvement, though I use snap for skype if I am not mistaken and that use case fits perfect since I don't trust Microsoft in general and Skype especially.

A bit off topic, some advice, don't update your IDE during your work week, sometimes something won't work and you will waste time trying to fix it, I learned my lesson and I download the new version .tar.gz and start using it, if something goes wrong I can go back to the previous version and look into finding a fix later.

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