Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

We've already talked about snaps on Ubuntu, but it turns out it's actually way worse than I initially thought.

On the latest Ubuntu, if you try to download the .deb version of Chromium using either the Software Store or command line, it acts as an alias to installing the snap version! Essentially, Chromium snap is shoved down your throat even if you explicitly asked for the .deb version. This is not cool Ubuntu - just because Chromium may be easier to maintain as a snap app doesn't justify this forced behavior.

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Snap applications auto-update and that's fine if Ubuntu wants to keep systems secure. But it can't even be turned off manually. Auto-updating of snaps can only be deferred at best, until at some point, like Windows, it auto-updates anyway. Even on metered connections, snaps auto-update anyway after some time.

I only use Ubuntu on my laptop right now - my workstation and main PC run my distribution of choice, Linux Mint with Cinnamon - because the latest version of Ubuntu supports it better than the current Linux Mint release does. As soon as the next version of Mint is out, which will be based on the current Ubuntu version, I'm ditching Ubuntu right away.

I don't like snaps, FlatPaks, AppImage, or any of that other nonsense that do nothing but make a clean .deb/APT-based system more complicated than it needs to be. Debian's package management system is incredibly robust and easy to fix in the unlikely event something does go wrong, so I simply do not have a need for additional application installation methods that I can't control through APT.

Ubuntu only barely just recovered from the Unity debacle, only for the project to now go down yet another route nobody is asking for.