Screenshot doesn’t even show half.
There are many reasons one could choose to hate Snap packages, and this not one of them. It’s like hating a webbrowser because it spawns 20 processes that (the horror) you would all see when you run
ps
. It’s just a part of how container technologies work.This is truly why I also hate snaps though. The
snapd
people and themount
people need to work out how to hide these by default.
I think Snap has the potential to be better than Flatpak. It’s a real sandbox instead of the half-assed shit Flatpak has going on. The problem I have with Snap is that Canonical keeps the Server closed-source. I don’t want a centralized app store where Canonical can just choose to remove apps they don’t like. So as long as the Server is closed-source, I will stay on Flatpak
How is Snap’s sandbox better than Flatpak’s?
Snaps can integrate with system like native packages, unlike Flatpaks that stay at user level like Appimages.