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Ubuntu 23.10 Won’t Use Snap Printing Stack After All
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Apt is still widely used, especially for system packages. Some distributions mainly rely on flatpak for gui apps and suggest containers for services (docker, podman, ...) and user cli tools (distrobox).
Snap is different and can be used for packaging anything (e.g. gui, cli, services), including the kernel and the snap daemon.
Canonical is moving towards snaps and is expected to release a snap-only immutable Ubuntu distribution in the next year or two.
With snap being able to install gui and system apps it does what immutable Fedora uses rpm-ostree and flatpak for.
I personally don't like that Canonical tries to push snap as a distro agnostic packaging sustem as it lacks features on many non-Ubuntu distros. Flatpak is especially useful for proprietary apps because of simple sandboxing or apps not packaged yet. It's also the main way to install packages on many immutable distros. It also works on NixOS which formats like appimage don't support by default (no fhs).