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@ciphermenial
It may be a bit critical, but a lot of folks on GNU/Linux value their privacy and traditional ideas about keeping apps small and doing one thing and one thing only (aka systemd for instance is less than optimal embedding everything and the kitchen sink and could be considered hostile to what GNU/Linux is or was for that matter). Things like Snaps increase the surface area and bugs needing fixed and it undermines the security. This is not Snap specific, but Snap may be the worst example with the centralized control. Linux Mint isn't incorporating Snaps as an example as are other distributions you would have expected to do so that are based on Ubuntu. Not everyone wants a Microsoft Windows or Mac system and yet that is what so many distributions if not most have become no thanks to parties like Redhat and Canonical. Many distributions have been forced to go along not having the resources to undo the damage and or risk losing support for many apps. No data should ever leave my PC without permission and unfortunately there is a lot of data that does and it has no business doing so. It's one thing when it has a function I want performed like getting an IP dynamically, but it is another when it is sending other information unnecessary to fill that objective.