The Atom snap announcement goes into a bit more detail about this. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/05/11/atom-is-now-available-as-a-snap-for-ubuntu/ https://in

The Atom snap announcement goes into a bit more detail about this. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/05/11/atom-is-now-available-as-a-snap-for-ubuntu/ https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/05/11/atom-is-now-available... Basically it means no filesystem sandboxing.