[curt15]

>Once they introduced "classically confined" snaps (that is, snaps that have no confinement and exposed the real filesystem hierarchy to them)

If there is no confinement, what advantages do "classically confined" snaps offer over AppImages?

[loloquwowndueo]

None, but that’s the point/ feature of classic confinement snaps : they have access to the entire filesystem at the expense of having access to the entire filesystem :)

By comparison, a strictly confined snap only has access to its own data directory and possibly to some configuration files or the users home directory, depending on which permissions it’s been granted.

A text editor which is most useful if it can edit arbitrary files in the filesystem could be classically confined.

A music player might be strictly confined with access only to external devices (and maybe users home directory).

A fishy untrustworthy crypto miner could be strictly confined with no additional permissions so it can only see/touch its own data.

[BruiseLee]

Forced updates.

[moistbar]

Or a centralized update mechanism at all. As I understand it, Appimage doesn't offer such a feature.