There's lots of negative towards Canonical's Snap store in Linux communities in favor of Flatpak, but when you dive deeper you figure Snap is not so bad -- it has at least two advantages:
- It has more apps overall
- It has stricter security rules
The second one is a dealbreaker for me, so I initially decided to stick to it. However, Snap's security rules have turned out to be a double-edged sword -- apps seemingly malfunction due to those strict rules. Particularly, I myself have stepped on broken functionality while using keepassxc, postman, simple-scan and discord. In all cases replacing snap apps with Debian versions fixed the issues for me. Perhaps it's time for me to give a try to Flatpak as well.
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