Nope, snap is bad, but how they modify apt to slow-rollout updates and bully Debian to offload things are equally bad. They became the Microsoft of the Linux world while trying to replace it.

They are moving with self-interest, not with a collective interest. Considering what Ubuntu means, that's bitterly ironic as well.

Shame.

Its far too hyperbolic to say they became the Microsoft of the Linux world.

I'm glad they are moving with self-interest, and that self-interest is Ubuntu and its users. For example, systemd the launcher and netplan are net good for Linux.

The word Ubuntu and self-interest are the exact opposite of each other, isn't it ironic?

If you're managing a fleet, netplan works for simple network configurations, and it doesn't work with Desktop systems at all.

For anything complicated, NetworkManager is much more capable and not more complicated than NetPlan to work with.

systemd is a different can of worms. I'll not open it here, today.

No its not ironic.

NetPlan works great for all network configurations.

Some of the things that annoy me re: snaps are:

1. the update process is separate from the main system update -- "close this program to update, or will forceably update in X days" notifications;

2. breaking desktop file links where an update can create a duplicate file and after the old snap is removed it removes your pins to the taskbar;

3. possibly breaking other things due to the way the snap directory for the app is not stable.