Well friends the news that is generated about the new features that Ubuntu 18.04 will have Bionic Beaver continue to emerge, as well as the proposals that developers have of the Canonical distribution to take into account if they can be viable or not enough.
This time one of the Ubuntu developers Steve Langasek has suggested including about the next version of the system support for Snap packages, since your argument is as follows.
"As more snapshot software becomes available, we want to take advantage of this set of packages as part of the default Ubuntu experience"
But as has been commented, it is only a proposal that has been launched on the air, because it must be raised and have a structured base.
But in order to understand the argument that he has given, for those who still know what snap packages are, we must understand their bases and the idea that is had about it:
Snap packages are used to distribute software, which is installed within the operating system, but with the feature that this already comes with all its dependencies included and that these will not affect the operating system, which is excellent because they can work on any Linux distribution.
The idea of being able to include Snapcraft support natively to Ubuntu is not bad, the problems lie first in the security holes that have been found and especially those that may arise.
The other small detail is to guarantee that the packages offered by this means can be guaranteed a constant update and are not forgotten, since this can represent a serious security problem over time, since having outdated software can be fatal for the system and the security of your data.
Although, I allow myself to argue that the inclusion of snap packages not only within Ubuntu but for any Linux distribution in general is an excellent idea, although at the moment from my point of view it is still only in the bases to be able to create a package system that can be used on any Linux system and can put aside the independent packages that only work on a specific distribution. But as I tell you this is only an opinion.
News source: OMGUbuntu
That includes it at once!
All Windows applications must be included since the wine application does not allow you to open several applications of this operating system but only a few
They have to look at priorities, for the specific case of LTS it is stability and security because their business products are based precisely on them, the latter for Canonical their true objective since we as domestic terminals are only experimentation fields. In their place I would not include such a possibility. We as ordinary users can always play with the distribution and add such capacity with two commands without major repercussions.
It is clear that Snap and Flatpak is the future because the current LTS structure with the passing of its lifetime makes it terribly outdated compared to rolling release systems.