Why is there only one Snap Store?

Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by umanwizard on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:08PM (#24152013)

Example from 2020: Running Ubuntu with two displays each of which has a different scaling factor requires switching to Wayland, because on X11, any window that touches the edge of one of the displays will run unusably slowly. (I don’t know why.) A non-technical “typical desktop user” would never have figured this out.

This is on a fully supported Linux machine (XPS 13 9300 Developer Edition).

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by m4rtink on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:34PM (#24152570)

Well, thats mostly due to Ubuntu still defaulting to X. Fedora switched to Wayland by default back in 2016 and even RHEL 8 (released 2019) defaults to Wayland.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by umanwizard on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:58PM (#24152741)

I feel like that just reinforces my point. Figuring out which random unsupported distro to install on the Linux laptop you bought is even less feasible for non-technical users than choosing a different login session on Ubuntu.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by unixhero on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:07AM (#24154267)

This guy isn't looking for solutions.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by StavrosK on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:51AM (#24156288)

Is there a way to use Wayland in Ubuntu? I run Kubuntu, not sure if that comes with Wayland by default.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by umanwizard on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:25AM (#24156962)

Ubuntu ships with both, so you just need to choose a different desktop session at login time.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by unixhero on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:07AM (#24154262)

Install Linux Mint and be done with it

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