Linux Mint 20 disables deb2snap packages, and Snap's growing external adoption problem

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@BillDietrich

Forcing them to update snaps will just make them avoid snaps.

Maybe I’m missing something, but if some power user really wants to use snaps, but doesn’t like the forced updates, there’s this option:

Disabling automatic refresh for snap from store

There’s actually an even more straightforward way to completely disable automatic updates. Instead of running snap install foo, you can actually use snap download foo ; snap install foo.snap --dangerous (or something along those lines). What that will do is, completely safely (still from the store etc!), sideload the snap onto your system, so that it won’t get updates from the store. You can then manually update the snaps as you wish by installing the new snap manually by running snap download…

OK, it’s not for everybody and it does not work for the core snap, but the thing is that the options exists.