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Snap can't seem to access my mounts. They're not very special mounts, but it happens in linux that you mount something, but snap just won't access. That made "no-go" a no-brainer.

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I have the same problem. Snaps are confined to only files within $HOME. I keep almost all data under /media/ and this caused snaps to be mostly unusable for me, at least unusable for productivity apps where I need to process data. Some apps though are self contained, e.g. Spotify, for example, works fine for me as a snap.

The limitation stems from a design problem, details at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1643706.

Yup. There needs to be considerable work to integrate snaps from completely sandboxed (no access to file system/network/hardware), to giving them controlled access to some resources, managed/monitored by root and/or user.

There is also a problem where snapd fails if your home directory isn't called /home/username (i.e. if it's located in a different path).

At this point snap sounds like a bad joke to me. Especially when Flatpak already exists.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1662552

For the longest time Snap chromium couldn't access files it had downloaded. So I would click to open a pdf when it was completed and get an error. I had to go whitelist my home dir in some config somewhere ..

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