Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com)

One of the most refreshing aspects of Linux in 2018 was the popularity of Snaps. Canonical revealed that the containerized packages have been a smashing success. Today, the Ubuntu-maker highlights what it feels are the top 10 Snaps of 2018. From a report: "With 2018 drawing to a close, and many of us spending with family during the holiday season, I thought we'd take a look back over some of our favourite Linux applications in the Snap Store. Some have been in the store for over a year, and a few landed only recently, but they're all great," says Alan Pope, Canonical. [...] Canonical shares the Top 10 Snaps: Spotify, Slack, VLC, Nextcloud, Android Studio, Discord, Plex Media Server, Xonotic, Notepad++, and Shotcut.

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Re:It's still a fairly bad idea

[craighansen]

The SNAP version of VLC on Ubuntu doesn't work to play video files mounted on NFS, and hasn't been able to do this for months after the bug was posted.

Re:It's still a fairly bad idea

[Herve5]

"Good luck finding that in your distribution repo. If you're running Ubuntu you get 3.0.4. If you're running Debian Stable then you get 3.0.3."
Well, I'm 60 years old, using Linux on Ubuntu (mostly out of laziness, otherwise I'd switch to Debian), and I have the latest VLC, because I am still able to copy-paste two lines from the VLC site into a terminal window. And now it auto-updates, contrary to your snaps....
Your objection only applies to people unable to copy-paste, IMHO...