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by BiteCode_dev 2293 days ago
Snapd has it's own set of problems.

It is sandboxed, so your use case must be compatible.

It uses apparmor, what if the system uses SEL ?

It's sandboxed in a certain way, your app must support it.

It's very recent, only the latest distribs have a snapd release that works well.

It's slower to execute.

Snapd assumes systemd.

But wait, did you say snapd ? I though you said flatpack. Or appimages.

Anyway, despite all that, it is easier to write a snapd instead of a deb+rpm+whatever. I actually like this project a lot.

And again it proves my point: to get stability, we use snapd, a tool to compensate for diversity.