The snap-first approach is an interesting contrast to what is happening in the terminal-agent world right now. Most coding agents assume you bring an API key (or a subscription) before the first prompt, which puts the same account wall in front of developers that snap stores put in front of packaging. The open-source, provider-neutral camp goes the other way: the tool itself ships free (OB-1, Apache-2.0, which I build), starts on free cloud models with no account, and then plugs into Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so it works on a plain Ubuntu box with no vendor signup at all. More on that experiment here: https://overbrilliant.com Whichever packaging model Ubuntu picks for AI tooling, the durability question is the one to watch. Google shut the Gemini CLI free tier for individual accounts in June, so "free" hosted models are a moving target and local endpoints are the fallback that keeps working...