I had to reinstall UBUNTU on my laptop and when I reinstalled Arduino it put it in a snap virtual machine. I didn't realize this at first and put all my projects back in an Arduino folder like before, not in the snap area. Can I and should I move all the old projects into the snap area or should I reinstall Arduino like it was before the reinstall? I've played with Arduino for several years now but snap is new to me and if I'm going to use it, I'd like to start out right.
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Hi @cpnews. Although I am not aware of any specific problems with the Arduino IDE Snap package, we always recommend using the official distribution of Arduino IDE downloaded from the links on the "Software" page of the arduino.cc website:
The packages in the Snap repository and other repositories are maintained by 3rd parties, with absolutely no involvement from Arduino.
Some of these maintainer do an excellent job and I'm sure the users of their packages are very satisfied, but in order to meet the requirements for inclusion in some of the repositories (or just by their own arbitrary whim) these packages often contain a version of Arduino IDE that has been modified in ways that can result in differences of behavior. Those of us who support the Arduino users are typically only familiar with the behavior of the official Arduino IDE distributions so when the modifications made by the package maintainers cause the users problems it is difficult for us to support them.
As is the nature of any purely volunteer effort, some of the package repositories also contain outdated versions of the IDE as the package maintainer may not be able to find time to keep up with the latest releases, or lost interest in the effort entirely. You will always have access to the latest version on the "Software" page.
