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You have skipped quite a few downsides. Anyway, the biggest one is that what was previously an app is now a separate environment that is sometimes hard to contr
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
You have skipped quite a few downsides. Anyway, the biggest one is that what was previously an app is now a separate environment that is sometimes hard to control. If I wanted to run an app in a sandbox, I would have run it in a sandbox. People have run into all possible problems with snaps in the past, it has been discussed on HN ad naueseam [0] [1].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383341
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129208
- rlpb 5y ago> Anyway, the biggest one is that what was previously an app is now a separate environment that is sometimes hard to control. If I wanted to run an app in a sandbox, I would have run it in a sandbox. I see sandboxing as a major upside. Users expect sandboxing by default nowadays. Some game they downloaded shouldn't be able to intercept your online banking browser session. Yet, in the traditional Linux desktop model, they can. Having app sandboxing by default is long overdue. Not having it makes the environment a second class citizen for user safety and security when compared to iOS and Android, for example.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoIn theory, if snap was mature software and had no other issues, this could work well. In practice, many people have problems.