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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
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Snaps were designed to solve dependency hell, get modern software, security, among other issues. If it weren't for the fact Flatpak does a better job, many more people would be praising Snap.
It's good that Canonical is trying to make the desktop better. It would be better if they focused their efforts elsewhere.
Flatpak is intended for end-user graphical applications, not many terminal applications are packaged by Flatpak so it makes sense why it wouldn't show up. Snap IIRC was first intended for their embedded system.