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Same here, but looking to jump. Snaps seem pretty broken, had numerous issues, and forcing popular apps into snaps is annoying, like say firefox, thunderbird, etc. Sadly looks like ubuntu is doubling down on snaps in 22.04.

I'm not against containers in general, but am against snaps.

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Snaps and the continuous issues with them was the main reason for me to leave. I'm very happy with Linux Mint now. I'll use Ubuntu on the server but never again on the desktop. I get what Snap was trying to accomplish, but it failed miserably IMHO.

Heh, well from what I can tell snaps were forced in before they were ready ... into a LTS release no less. Caused a ton of problems, they lied about adoption from multiple distros, and kept the server side closed source trying to create vendor lock in for any snaps users. A very poor showing.

Linux Mint is top of my list for switching to.

I think this was partly driven by Firefox, but Ubuntumate is certainly shipping with flatpak and another package manager (maybe appimage, I lose track).

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