Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net)

Canonical is applauding what it calls "exceptional adoption" of snaps -- and has shared some new statistics about its whole "Snappy" software deployment and package management system. Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this article from Neowin: snaps are seeing 100,000 installs every day on cloud, server, container, desktop and on IoT devices, which works out to around three million installs each month. Of course, these statistics don't only take into account snap installs on Ubuntu, but other distributions too. Canonical said that snaps are supported on 41 Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Fedora, and many more...

Snap packages first launched alongside Ubuntu 16.04 which was released in 2016. They have several benefits over typical Linux packages, for example, their dependencies are bundled into the package making them easy to install, they get automatic updates and can be rolled back by the maintainer if issues arise, and they're sandboxed, giving the user more security.

Comments

not many stats

[sittingnut]

apart from there being 4100 snaps, and there are 100,000( and growing) installs per day, there aren't any stats as far as i can see.
did i miss a link?

Re:I hate snaps

[dremon]

Snaps are read-only squashfs images and so are mounted. It's not 'thousand unnecessary folders', what are you talking about? I have installed Spotify, Slack, Freemind, Intellij and Signal, there is normally just one mount per app, sometimes I see two (for previous version). Calculator is probably an overkill but the apps I use are handy, no need to lookup for 3rd-party apt repositories and deal with dependencies and binary compatibility across distros.