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Re:Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04 by jcelerier on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:12AM (#22977070)
> I'd expect most people tech-savvy enough to install Ubuntu

we installed ubuntu with friends in freakin junior high school. it's not like it's rocket science...

OTOH the village where I grew up as a child only got DSL > 512k around 2008 iirc.

Re:Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04 by jcelerier on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:27AM (#22977582)
Checked a bit, the figure I could find was an ubuntu employee estimating the figure to half a million in 2004, so at the beginning of the programme -> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1691&page=2&p=3255...

So yeah, lot of people got those.