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Snaps promise to do some really cool things. They just are a bitch to use and they are slow and tied too heavily to canonical.
Weren’t you supposed to be able to snap in and out a kernel by now? Like, not even needing a reboot?
The kernel is a snap in Ubuntu Core, but you still need to reboot. I don’t think there’s a nice way to work around that.