Snap recently got much more polished.

I used to have to find a script to purge excess old snaps that would fill up my hard drive. Now Ubuntu only keeps two versions of each snap.

I was wondering why the script didn't have to ever clean more than one version, even when I took longer between running updates.

Just move to flatpak, much nicer to deal with

I got rid of both and my system is much better for it. The only thing I still use that is distributed in such a format is AppImage, and mainly because it has never given me trouble.

Both fail hard for so many things. If you need any sort of hardware acceleration, just use an rpm/deb.

In my testing I find the exact reverse. I much prefer snap to flatpak.

Snap is mostly limited to Ubuntu and has to run as a daemon.

Flatpak gives me cross-platform/cross-distro software directly/certified by the project or company that has additional security sandboxing and doesn't open up potential security issues.

I don't have to wait for a distro package, and yet there are no system integration concerns.

It also works great for atomic distros (SilverBlue, etc)

snaps work on anything that has systemd so I don't quite know where you got the idea is that it is mostly limited to ubuntu.

IDK just using Linux for like 30 years.

They're the only main distro I know of that uses it at all by default.

Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc. Ubuntu is the only one.

> Ubuntu is the only one.

I have to say that I really do not understand the point of comments like this.

The reality of user-facing Linux is this:

Most of it is Android. It sells billions of units per year.

Of the rest, something like 90% is ChromeOS. That recruits 2-3 hundred million new hardware sales a year, which is roughly 10x as many users annually as the entire history of the Linux distro world. ChromeBooks sell more than desktop PCs and more than Macs by value although Macs cost at least 5x as much.

But of the remaining, oh let's be generous and say 10% of Linux users, most is Ubuntu.

Debian-based distros are 2/3 to 3/4 of all traceable measurable Linux usage, and 2/3 of Debian-family use is Ubuntu.

Red Hat and its fantastic valuation is like 1% of the Linux world.

So what you are saying is "only the Linux mainstream uses snap, and all the weird little hacker/hobbyist distros that have like ten users don't use it."