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We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again.

Very annoying.

this feels both clever and stupid at the same time - not you but the software games you have to play.

theres a lot of wasted effort in the games we play to make software work in prod.

From being a production engineer for many years I can only agree: some of the brightest people of our generation spend most of their time compensating for the poor design choices of others. Not sure if this is better or worse than advertising.

That certainly works too but with my approach you can run "snap refresh" manually whenever you feel like updating.

Agreed, it's the stupidest thing around, especially because Linux is about having control of your own systems, then they force updates down your throat, it goes against a lot of the things I use Linux for.

I just avoid snap and Ubuntu wherever possible now.

> If enough people were to ever decide to get together and properly fork snapd and maintain the patched version I'd totally dedicate time to helping out.

Is that the gist of flatpak?