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Why I dislike snaps (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

I think Snap has the potential to be better than Flatpak. It's a real sandbox instead of the half-assed shit Flatpak has going on. The problem I have with Snap is that Canonical keeps the Server closed-source. I don't want a centralized app store where Canonical can just choose to remove apps they don't like. So as long as the Server is closed-source, I will stay on Flatpak

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

How is Snap's sandbox better than Flatpak's?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Snaps can integrate with system like native packages, unlike Flatpaks that stay at user level like Appimages.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

that's really just two differences:

  • weaker separation/sandboxing (process is granted permission to everything) (mostly bad with handy usecases)
  • an alias feature for binaries contained in packages so you don't have to run them by ID
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