I've gotten it running on Arch without Snap, so it's not a hard requirement, just a convenience. But I haven't tried it recently as Anbox needs a custom kernel

I've gotten it running on Arch without Snap, so it's not a hard requirement, just a convenience. But I haven't tried it recently as Anbox needs a custom kernel since Linux 5.7, which I am too lazy to do, so the situation might've changed.