In addition to that, snap packages take up a lot more space, don’t match your Ubuntu theme, and aren’t always official.
Snap packages take a lot of time to install and even launch. Moreover, there’s been a lot of underlying problems with Snap. It clearly fetches the snap package when the command is for an apt package.
In simple words, if you do a simple “sudo apt install chromium-browser”, it executes the command and installs the snap package instead of the Debian one. The package is empty, and acts, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store. The latest Ubuntu variant ships with an empty Chromium package. This entire snap debate has again started after the Ubuntu 20.04 launch. The Linux community has been discussing Canonical’s push for snap and the issues with it. So, no additional installation Snap applications work within a sandbox environment Most popular applications from major publishers like KDE, Microsoft, Google are on the snap repository Snap packages are auto-updated Dependencies are bundled within the snap package.
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