GNOME Software Moving Forward With Disabling Snap Plugin

[Khrundel]

Snap has one advantage over flatpak: it creates links to a snap executable with snappy software name, so instead of "flatpak run com.example.coolapp" snapped apps can be runned as "coolapp".

[starshipeleven]

Yes, that's why Gnome software is slow: there are tons of performance-enhancing changes that are prevented by the Snap support
Changing an app that supports plugins is no more complicated than changing any modular app (i.e. any decently written app).

Are you perhaps hinting at the fact that GNOME software is slow because it was not "decently written"?
It's impossible, good sir, you must be totally mistaken.

[libv]

Main (and important) difference between the items in these couples is that one is good, while the other isn't.

Powerplay pre-empted those things, taking away the natural evolution of open source software. And i would not call implementing FGLRX style driver "solutions" good.

[starshipeleven]

Powerplay pre-empted those things

Not really. As I said one of the two was inferior.

And i would not call implementing FGLRX style driver "solutions" good.

It works better than trying to make a driver without any documentation about registers.

Given the environment, that's the only good choice.

[GizmoChicken]

RIP:

• Snaps
• upstart
• mir
• Unity
• Ubuntu One
• Ubuntu Phone

Still alive and healthy:

• Snaps
• Mir
• Unity7
• Unity8
• Ubuntu Phone

[nslqqq]

GNOME and removing features, name a more iconic duo.

> There's also still no sandboxing support years after it was promised, which means on Fedora running a snap is no more secure than "wget -O - URL | bash", again much unlike Flatpak

Thats quite ironic, a lot of flatpaks come with security holes like --filesystem=home making them effectivly as unsecure as it gets.

[starshipeleven]

Thats quite ironic, a lot of flatpaks come with security holes like --filesystem=home making them effectivly as unsecure as it gets.

It's talking of support though.

[kallisti5]

Still alive and healthy:

• Snaps
• Mir
• Unity7
• Unity8
• Ubuntu Phone

With this logic, Hanna Montana Linux is "alive and healthy"

[Ananace]

All I'm taking from this is that Canonical apparently aren't doing a very good job at all at interacting with major distros they're supposed to support in their cross-distro packaging system.

[Vistaus]

Arguably that's often a bad thing with Gnome, but I don't believe so this time. FAIK Ubuntu is the only distro using snaps,

Solus also runs snapd by default (but doesn't use it for regular packages yet) and recommends to install snaps for 3rd party software that can't be included in the main repos (e.g. Spotify). Granted, Solus has its own software center, but just saying Ubuntu is not the only distro wit OOTB snap support/recommendations.
And Manjaro also runs snapd by default.