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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by curt15 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:46AM (#22953994)
>The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages.

The graphical "gnome software" software installer was replaced in the default install by a snap-only fork named "Snap Store" with no support for Flatpak (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/+bug/1871944). Were there some technical reasons for this move or was it a business decision to kneecap the other package format?

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by zyga on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:15AM (#22954130)
IIRC GNOME removed support for snaps from gnome-software so this was the only way forward.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by curt15 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:26AM (#22954468)
According to git, gnome-software snap support still seems to be actively developed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/commits/mast...
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by brtln on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:46AM (#22954290)
It's not true. GNOME Software still ships Snap plugin. It's Canonical that decided to fork gnome-software and provide it under different name without competition plugins enabled.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by majewsky on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:46AM (#22954293)
No. Canonical absolutely has the resources to make an appstore that supports all three package formats (dpkg, flatpak, snap).
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