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And Snap isn't? If you think Flatpak is bad how exactly is locking you into an objectively worse universal package manager the solution?
yeah, Snap is magnitudes worse than Flatpak.
Can you expand on this. I'm actually curious.
It needs a daemon (lots of wasted resources).
You have to fiddle around in config files to allow access to files on the system instead of using something like Flatseal.
It basically only works with a store which is kind of proprietary.
Own repositories are hard to set up.
The packaging for software maintainers is harder than Flatpak's.