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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by AgentME on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:05PM (#24387572)
>If you really wanted to, you could run a lot of your software in unprivileged containers secured with seccomp.

We've come full circle, because Snap does run software in unprivileged containers.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by heavyset_go on Saturday September 05, 2020 @08:46PM (#24388014)
They are not the same thing, however, and the complaints people have about Snap don't stem from its use of unprivileged containers.
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