Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
Users and groups are not enough to secure Linux, especially on a desktop environment.<p>Snaps have a permissions system backed by AppArmor and Seccomp that confines the snap to a sandbox with limited privileges based on a security profile.<p>You can read about it here:<p>- <a href="https://core.docs.ubuntu.com/en/guides/intro/security#heading--permissions" rel="nofollow">https://core.docs.ubuntu.com/en/guides/intro/security#headin...</a><p>- <a href="https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management" rel="nofollow">https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management</a><p>Flatpak does have a sandbox but in practice, many flatpaks do not use it securely. You can read about it here: <a href="https://flatkill.org/" rel="nofollow">https://flatkill.org/</a><p>AppImage does not seem that security is one of its goals.<p>So, for the time being I'll keep using snaps. They're a great idea :)<p>So, tl;dr: Snaps are not only about packaging. They confine software to a sandbox with limited privileges.