Snap makes it easier to distribute closed-source software like skype - but people running linux on the desktop generally have no great love of closed source software.
For open source software, snap is the same software, but slower, more broken and with worse upgrades.
Snap's changed the firefox update process so I now have to run 'sudo snap refresh' and wait for a download, where before I just closed and reopened it. Maybe it'll make my running application's dock icon disappear, hope you always use alt+tab instead of the dock. Snap can install ffmpeg - but I can't feed a screen recording to vaapi for compression because whoever set up the sandboxing forgot to allow that. Good luck sharing anything from, say, ~/.config/ on, say, discord - you get a silent unexplained failure, because hidden folder access is blocked by the sandbox. Installing a browser? With snap you get three copies; you can adjust refresh.retain down to only keep 2 copies - but 1 copy is out of the question.
There's a reason canonical has to force snap down people's throats, and it's because nobody uses it by choice.
For open source software, snap is the same software, but slower, more broken and with worse upgrades.
Snap's changed the firefox update process so I now have to run 'sudo snap refresh' and wait for a download, where before I just closed and reopened it. Maybe it'll make my running application's dock icon disappear, hope you always use alt+tab instead of the dock. Snap can install ffmpeg - but I can't feed a screen recording to vaapi for compression because whoever set up the sandboxing forgot to allow that. Good luck sharing anything from, say, ~/.config/ on, say, discord - you get a silent unexplained failure, because hidden folder access is blocked by the sandbox. Installing a browser? With snap you get three copies; you can adjust refresh.retain down to only keep 2 copies - but 1 copy is out of the question.
There's a reason canonical has to force snap down people's throats, and it's because nobody uses it by choice.