Recently, I was planning to install Opera browser on my system, so I visited the official website, and downloaded the .deb file, and installed it.
However, to my concern, for every update, I will be needing to download the .deb file again and again, since I have not updated the repository in Software & Updates section. At this point I thought, Chrome itself added the repository, so maybe Opera must have done it too, but it didn't.
Same issue with the Discord application, i.e., I have to visit the official website and download the .deb file for timely-updates.
However, I found that the Ubuntu software market ships both, Opera and Discord, but as snap packages. So I thought to give it a try, since it would relief me of downloading the .deb files from the official website, and I can update them with just a command.
Here, I was recommended by some friends of mine that I shouldn't opt for the snap, because of some errors or something, which I am currently completely unaware of, and instead go for the official .deb files.
Can someone explain me the differences?
EDIT: Since past few months, Chromium has too moved itself to the snap packages. Does this have any difference from past when it was in apt-get package system?
