Flatpak recently got a method of preinstalling flatpaks.

A flatpak cannot install a snap on your system. Apt can install a snap because when apt installs and updates packages, it can also run scripts as root. That’s insecure and potentially dangerous, so flatpak doesn’t have that ability.

All of those, apart from loop devices, are not technical limitations, but results from Canonical’s poor management and monopolistic desires.

Snap is interesting for me it can do more things than flatpak and has some really interesting sandboxing features coming up such as permission prompts for filesystem access.

But Canonical management is a significant hindrance. The Snap Store simply cannot be trusted after so much malware got in and they still have not improved their processes. So many snaps including Canonical’s own, are still using core22 for some reason. And there’s the broken snaps Canonical pushed on users.

I would love to see a snap repo that takes the best parts of Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks. Because as a technology, I think snap beats flatpak (if you’re using AppArmor). But it’s Canonical’s poor management that really drags it down.

But as an actual option or not? I think OP is referring to those who say “I’m going to switch to Linux” like those politicians to pay so much lip service to freedom, democracy, privacy while at the same time voting to erode all of those. The implication being that they won’t actually ever switch to Linux.

You can tinker for the most part, it’s just done differently. In the Universal Blue world, that would be creating your own OCI container using their image template or blue build.

The nice thing is that it makes the OS much more reproducible than imperative commands and scripts.

[Blockchain] technology is neutral. People make it good or bad.

Sure, maybe. But you’re making it clear you’re in the bad camp too when you’re announcing this with NFTs.