>While apt can still be used, many packages were replaced by snaps, completely defeating the purpose. From my understanding there are not many snaps installed

>While apt can still be used, many packages were replaced by snaps, completely defeating the purpose. From my understanding there are not many snaps installed by default, and the ones installed by default are Canonical ones not some Solitaire game you found on a piracy website. The issue with deb is you need to install the package as root. For example I needed a program to inspect a PDF, I found "PDF Master" and it had a .deb installed , but should I trust this program installer? Because I understand how deb works I downloaded the file, unpacked it and run the application without installing it, we need something that allows us Linux users to run random binaries without giving them root and would be cool if we had easy to use sandboxing and firewalls to prevent this apps connecting to who know what.