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		stevepike on May 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me of... Yeah, is there a plan for it to long-term replace apt? I've just always used apt as my first choice and then snap for random things like spotify.

toyg on May 2, 2020 [–]

They are making a very big bet on snap, I would expect most of their desktop apps to be slowly moved there in the next few years. At that point apt would be kept around strictly for essential system packages and (hopefully) for server usage.

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