I am using Linux because it is open source. I can tinker if soemthing does not work and I can switch servers or run my own if there is an issue with the organization running the server.

Without having deeply investigated myself I read the snap server is proprietary, nobody can run another instance. So nothing I want spend time on to even understand. (The client side gets some complaints, too. But without understanding the system I don't want to form an opinion, I uninstall it from the Ubuntu systems I still have.)

Yeah, the funny thing is, that MicroOS is supposed to work with flatpak. It's installed out of the box and you just have to add the Flathub repo. (And on gnome you should remove libpackagekit-zypp to prevent gnome software to try to install updates via zypper)

With flatpak you also don't have to engage in this wierd /snap trickery.

I saw someone on r/linux recently with a Fedora Silverblue install with all apps installed through Flatpak.

We're getting there.

Edit: CoreOS -> Silverblue. Thanks to LeoPanthera.

Blog author here, by default MicroOS comes with flatpaks so you can just use that as you want.

You can use either one you want but keep the same base OS, as far as I can tell openSUSE is the only immutable distro that lets you do that, which I think is pretty cool.