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I have a standing fatwa on snap only because it comes installed and enabled by default on Ubuntu server. Maybe it's good for grandmas laptop but it's kill-on-sight in a server environment. Every Ubuntu server I've seen has eventually been taken offline without any warning because of
snapd
doing some auto update.Ubuntu server should have
snapd
disabled. Ubuntu shouldn't be the default distro for VPS providers. AFAIK its only the default because its the distro most people might have prior experience with.While I'm at it, Fedora is also on my shit list as
dnf
requires over a gig of memory to do a major version upgrade.