But how much is anyone forced to use snaps, outside of maybe a few core applications that might define ubuntu? Flatpak can be installed on ubuntu and I'd say most of the important stuff seems to be from the apt repos. Granted that may be an argument for Debian alone but I'm just trying to make sense of it.

Broken or incomplete sandboxing on anything not Ubuntu. They not only rely on AppArmor, but also downstream patches. You have no sandbox on distros such as Fedora and OpenSUSE.

This is a bit outside my zone. Could you please explain this?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They're pushing snaps onto users who don't even want them - when you apt install some packages, you get snaps instead. That alone disqualifies Ubuntu in my eyes.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But how much is anyone forced to use snaps

Both Firefox and Thunderbird are installed as Snap package. And, you have to fiddle with repo settings a bit to give Mozilla repo a higher priority to install deb packages.