While I’m happy to talk about any one of those topics, having all of them in such an unfocused list generally creates a thread that reads like a rant making it hard to get to agreements, and anyone learning anything at all (myself included obviously) becomes hard because we’ll be jumping from idea to idea without any order. In other words, this is a recipe for speaking across each other.
For that reason, I’m going to close this thread down, and encourage whoever is interested in honestly discussing these ideas to open independent topics covering one piece at a time so that these conversations can be more productive. Again for emphasis: not trying to stop the conversation, but rather to have that same conversation in a way we’ll all find more pleasant to read and participate on.
I’ll make a few final remarks just to encourage the upcoming topics to start on the right foot:
- For any statistics, please provide source which details how they were acquired. I believe snaps are more popular today, by a large margin. This is a guess, and I’m saying so. Anyone is free to guess otherwise, but what doesn’t make sense is providing data without a source that would allow us to evaluate the conditions in which it was obtained.
- Let’s please try to provide good, up-to-date information. Solus, the very project described in the original points, seems to be pretty happy about snaps.
- Along similar lines, we already have a snap that is reused across snaps, so that’s a non-issue really. Also, even assuming snaps have to be large for some other reason, snapd supports deltas which make even such large snaps pretty much irrelevant in practice.
- Many of the perceived issues in the desktop are being worked on (design, proper usage, etc), as you can watch here in the forum. But again, we cannot give the proper attention to such technical details right next to high-level points.
So, again, closing it down, but please do feel free to raise independent topics for conversation.