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Users and groups are not enough to secure Linux, especially on a desktop environment.

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.

You can read about it here:

- https://core.docs.ubuntu.com/en/guides/intro/security#headin...

- https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management

Flatpak does have a sandbox but in practice, many flatpaks do not use it securely. You can read about it here: https://flatkill.org/

AppImage does not seem that security is one of its goals.

So, for the time being I'll keep using snaps. They're a great idea :)

So, tl;dr: Snaps are not only about packaging. They confine software to a sandbox with limited privileges.



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