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It all depends on your skill level and ability to navigate through documentation and tutorials. The short answer: If you are a beginner, go with a traditional Ubuntu version and use the documentation that's there. If you are willing to "trailblaze" a little bit, go with Snappy and be prepared to have little or no documentation/support. The long answer: There are yet no installation instructions on the wiki for snappy, which shows the amount of support. Packages to run ROS with full compatibility on ROS have been made by some people on the side, but I'm not sure if ROS itself is actively working on this. For a beginner, as I am and probably will still be for a while, having tons of documentation is invaluable. With the Ubuntu Trusty Desktop you get just that, tons of documentation and full support. It's really up to you. If you feel like you can handle it without documentation guiding the way, by all means do it.

To specifically answer your question: If you are just starting out, don't use Snappy, otherwise go for it. Hope that helps,

It all depends on your skill level and ability to navigate through documentation and tutorials. The short answer: If you are a beginner, go with a traditional Ubuntu version and use the documentation that's there. If you are willing to "trailblaze" a little bit, go with Snappy and be prepared to have little or no documentation/support. The long answer: There are yet no installation instructions on the wiki for snappy, which shows the amount of support. Packages to run ROS with full compatibility on ROS have been made by some people on the side, but I'm not sure if ROS itself is actively working on this. For a beginner, as I am and probably will still be for a while, having tons of documentation is invaluable. With the Ubuntu Trusty Desktop you get just that, tons of documentation and full support. It's really up to you. If you feel like you can handle it without documentation guiding the way, by all means do it.

To specifically answer your question: If you are just starting out, don't use Snappy, otherwise go for it. it.

Hope that helps,