Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.
Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.
Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.
If you’re using a stable distro, the repo will end up with programs that are years out of date. So instead of compiling manually, you use flatpak/snap/appimage/nix/guix as an extra package manager. They also allow devs to release cross-distro packages.
I’m uninformed, why were things like snap and flatpak created?
I barely understand docker, but I’m starting to understand why it can be beneficial, although bloated.
Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.
Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.
Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.
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If you’re using a stable distro, the repo will end up with programs that are years out of date. So instead of compiling manually, you use flatpak/snap/appimage/nix/guix as an extra package manager. They also allow devs to release cross-distro packages.