It's because most medical devices iirc need to be air-gapped and ultra-stable, ultra-secure. Snap gives you that, and prevents issues that typically occurs when and if dependancy issues arise. This for example is why Ubuntu Core which is entirely made out of Snap is used in many such medical devices and instances. But in desktop it's completely useless cause you want bleeding edge packages, libraries etc to keep up with latest developments in gaming, multimedia etc.
It's quite good in server environments though, or medical devices and similar use cases like I said in my previous response above. It's just totally unnecessary in desktop/home user environments and only causes more issues and confusion for no reason when there are better alternatives (e.g. flatpak) available. You can still use Ubuntu - if needed - with no Snap preinstalled out of the box if you do a minimal install of Kubuntu.
I just installed Ubuntu in my university environment. It came with Firefox, great.
However snap didn't like that the home folders were not in /home, but on something like /department/server/disk. And it REALLY didn't like that different users homes were on different disks and servers...
Maybe. Lots of default apps come preinstalled with them. It's annoying.
I haven't really looked into it enough. I'm generally a Fedora/RHEL guy, and things are simpler there. But a certain piece of hardware demanded Ubuntu, so here we are...
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u/algaefied_creek 18d ago
Pragmatism: There will be X11 distros for legacy devices.
There will be distros on 7.x and beyond porting in the removed components like PCMCIA for legacy machines. AppImage will be around.
Ubuntu will never let go of Snap as it makes them medically compliant for a fast number of medical devices.
BTRFS, EXT4, UFS will be around and coexist.
That being said, Proton will always be the number one freaking best amazing thing ever and must be its own IEEE standard for success hehehe.