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queenkjuullast Monday at 10:46 AM1 replyview on HN

You can run snaps wherever you want. Brew is available for Linux.

Point being: their "architecture" is not preventing them from installing

Also: i have no qualms with snap. Genuinely don't get the hate.


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akimbostrawmanyesterday at 7:49 AM

>You can run snaps wherever you want

While that is technically true, snaps are very much build for ubuntu. For example it's sandboxing relies on apparmor meaning on distro without it such as archlinux, there is no confinement or security advantage.

Meanwhile flatpak is an actual distro agnostic containerized package management system using namespaces and seccomp available everywhere. Its infrastructure is also officially self hostable unlike snaps.