Gotcha, makes sense! Basically like portable apps…

Interesting, thanks… What makes Snaps bad, though?

Right, what I mean is that:

Canonical is suspect, don’t use Ubuntu. Mint is fine.

I didn’t realize this distinction was so massive given how Mint is built on Ubuntu, right?

Oh, okay; I didn’t know how interrelated the Mint devs are with anyone at Canonical. It sounds like they’re totally independent, which is great! It was just a bit of a shock to see people here say “Stop using Ubuntu” entirely, though, since it’s such a household name in the world of Linux that it sort of upended my entire perspective for a bit.