I like to point to this page when referring to PPAs:

• Are PPAs safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for?

I put this warning everytime I add a PPA to an answer, not because I believe they are malicious (after all, the world hasn't ended in the last decade or so they've been around), but mostly because no one is out there testing the different combinations of different PPAs. I just kind of put it at the bottom and let the user decide what they want to do. People get confused doing upgrades or maybe a developer of a PPA bails and it ends up being stale or it 404's for the latest release or whatever.

Their original intent of PPAs was to enable developers to get code out fast to tighten the development feedback loop between testers and developers. But over time they ended up being user-facing things due to people wanting newer software than Ubuntu could provide.

Thankfully snappy is being designed with all of this in mind, so people can finally get the latest software they want without having to worry if an upgrade will break their computer, which is a good thing!

I like to point to this page when referring to PPAs:

• Are PPAs safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for?

I put this warning everytime I add a PPA to an answer, not because I believe they are malicious (after all, the world hasn't ended in the last decade or so they've been around), but mostly because no one is out there testing the different combinations of different PPAs. I just kind of put it at the bottom and let the user decide what they want to do. People get confused doing upgrades or maybe a developer of a PPA bails and it ends up being stale or it 404's for the latest release or whatever.

Their original intent of PPAs was to enable developers to get code out fast to tighten the development feedback loop between testers and developers. But over time they ended up being user-facing things due to people wanting newer software than Ubuntu could provide.

Thankfully snappy is being designed with all of this in mind, so people can finally get the latest software they want without having to worry if an upgrade will break their computer, which is a good thing!