I like Ubuntu and related technologies around it so when I wanted to learn Linux packaging I went for snap. It turned out to be not as hard as I thought, and from my experience they run just fine. And are capable of packaging more types of apps than flatpak.

idk what to tell you, I used it on an old Hp laptop from 2008 with an HDD. Ran just fine. Maybe try it again in 2025

I packaged 10+ snaps. You're wrong.

Having a closed source backend isn't the reason for malicious packages. There's a clear distinction between official and unofficial packages, and flathub isn't immune to this either.

In comparison to flatpak, each runtime (core[number]) is supported for 10 years, so developers aren't pressured to update it if the app keeps working. The side effect is that over time you will end up with a few extra core snaps on your system but the peace of mind for the maintainers is worth it imo.

A small sample size is better than "most people probably"

I'm not so sure about that when looking at stats

On Steam you can see Mint, which uses the LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 itself, the snapped version of steam (could be used anywhere, only Canonical has access to those stats)

And on the snaps I maintain I see this. The LTS releases seem to be used the most

Thanks. People underestimate the app a lot but once you learn the basics it allows you to be very creative.