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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The other reason for not liking Snaps is badly implemented sandboxing. Unless they've fixed it more recently, the Snap version of a program cannot see your USB stick, your printer, your scanner, ½ of your fonts, your 2nd internal hard drive, your custom plugins etc and it can't connect to other software also installed on the computer.

There's (to my knowledge) not currently an easy system to grant access to these things - whereas Flatpak, for instance, has Flatseal, which let's you alter the permissions of all your Flatpak programs.

Perhaps if they'd launched Snaps with an android-like "would you like to give this program access to..." sort of thing, there'd be less of a problem.

There is of course a chance this has all been fixed since - but I've certainly not heard of it happening.

[–] mooseifu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Ahh, that makes sense. Thank you! 😊