Thank you for your bug report, that's not really a bug and not one in gnome-software.
If you want to discuss the use of snaps for those applications https://community.ubuntu.com/ is a better place. Snaps have some issues as you pointed but those are being worked on and are going to be fixed and we believe that providing them as snaps increases the security and is going to make easier updating them to newer versions in the futur so it's not likely we revert that decision. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768448 Title: Don't use snaps for default system packages Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: In a fresh install, standard applications like gnome-calculator and gnome-system-monitor are installed as snaps. This results in a plethora of mounted loopback devices for basically nothing. Never mind the slow application startup times (seconds for gnome-system-monitor on a Ryzen 1700 with 32GB RAM and a Samsung EVO 960 on an M.2 interface). Removing the snaps and going back to deb packages, the performance issues go away. I can understand using snaps for third-party commercial software, but for the base system, the default debian package manager has served us well. I consider pushing snaps for default gnome applications a bug, and mismanagement of the system. This does not happen on an upgraded Ubuntu (from 16.04LTS). Snap is there, with no applications installed. That's how the default should be. ---- $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1768448/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
