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I think there are (in general) two models that work.

1) ubuntu lts - stable releases - I'm a server person I want nothing to change, ever.

2) arch linux - rolling releases - I'm a desktop person, I want the latest of everything, now.

anything between these two extremes kind of sucks, both as a developer and as a user.

advantages:

1: "Q: I want to disable snapd on ubuntu 18.04, how do I do it?"

"A: <20 detailed posts of how to do it>"

1: "user: something isn't working"

"developer: clearly your fault, I haven't changed anything in that project in 4 months"

2: "Q: I want to disable snapd on arch linux, how do I do it?"

"A: why did you install it? look on the wiki."

2: "user: something isn't working"

"developer: everything is up-to-date, please do pacman -Syu and read the wiki"



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