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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ashtonkem on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:47PM (#24384933)
Can’t you actually sandbox any app you want with chroot and cgroups yourself?
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by tracker1 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:19AM (#24389398)
chroot is not the same as lxc (linux containers)

You can do very similar, but if it's a gui app, or has specific system dependencies there will be issues to work around.

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