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by personalcompute 2178 days ago
I have the same problem. Snaps are confined to only files within $HOME. I keep almost all data under /media/ and this caused snaps to be mostly unusable for me, at least unusable for productivity apps where I need to process data. Some apps though are self contained, e.g. Spotify, for example, works fine for me as a snap.

The limitation stems from a design problem, details at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1643706.
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lokedhs 2178 days ago
There is also a problem where snapd fails if your home directory isn't called /home/username (i.e. if it's located in a different path).

At this point snap sounds like a bad joke to me. Especially when Flatpak already exists.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1662552

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silon42 2178 days ago
Yup. There needs to be considerable work to integrate snaps from completely sandboxed (no access to file system/network/hardware), to giving them controlled access to some resources, managed/monitored by root and/or user.
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