Canonical’s Snap: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The technical criticisms here are not really directed at Snap, but at the trade-offs inherent to the sandboxed-application packaging model in general.<p>Speaking as day-to-day desktop Linux user, a working sandboxed-app model would be a BIG improvement over rpms and debs.  I would LOVE to be able to install any version of any application, or multiple versions, independently of OS and library versions, without having to compile from source code, grapple with conflicting dependencies, etc.<p>Are there any F&#x2F;LOSS alternatives to Snap that are as widely used and tested?  If there aren&#x27;t any, Snap is really our &quot;least worst&quot; alternative.