Snaps, Flatpacks etc are tools needed to push commercial CRAP in FLOSS systems. Period.
The present "sorry state of packaging", largely due to the sorry state of storage (filesystems) stuck in the '80s in the bad sense of being simply largely obsolete for today's needs can be partially surpassed by NixOS/Guix model, witch is a FLOSS packaging model.
Snaps and co on contrary are needed to push distro to irrelevance and allow closed source crapware, mostly filled up with outdated dependencies and horrendous hacks to speed up delivery times by some underpaid and under-competent developer, still fail to prove ANY other realistic purpose.
Really: try to honestly weight their ideas and tell different conclusions if you can find something else.
At first they say "we do compartmentalize anything for safety", than "ah, yes, we can't really isolate stuff because if you want just to open a damn pdf downloaded from a modern WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons you can't, so we start punching holes here and there" and thereafter even the effectiveness of formal isolation was depicted as not really safe.
Then/aside another justification came up: pushing fresh software to distros who do not have manpower for quick enough maintainers. The actual snap store prove the contrary: most snaps are outdated and full of outdated deps, with potentially unpatched security vulnerabilities, of course.
Oh, of course they can't package anything than apps, since kernel/userland can't be in a snap, so they need anyway a secondary packaging systems.
The present "sorry state of packaging", largely due to the sorry state of storage (filesystems) stuck in the '80s in the bad sense of being simply largely obsolete for today's needs can be partially surpassed by NixOS/Guix model, witch is a FLOSS packaging model.
Snaps and co on contrary are needed to push distro to irrelevance and allow closed source crapware, mostly filled up with outdated dependencies and horrendous hacks to speed up delivery times by some underpaid and under-competent developer, still fail to prove ANY other realistic purpose.
Really: try to honestly weight their ideas and tell different conclusions if you can find something else.
At first they say "we do compartmentalize anything for safety", than "ah, yes, we can't really isolate stuff because if you want just to open a damn pdf downloaded from a modern WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons you can't, so we start punching holes here and there" and thereafter even the effectiveness of formal isolation was depicted as not really safe.
Then/aside another justification came up: pushing fresh software to distros who do not have manpower for quick enough maintainers. The actual snap store prove the contrary: most snaps are outdated and full of outdated deps, with potentially unpatched security vulnerabilities, of course.
Oh, of course they can't package anything than apps, since kernel/userland can't be in a snap, so they need anyway a secondary packaging systems.