Classic "it doesn't affect me" (yet), so it's fine. Maybe you'll change your tune when you run out of drinkable water because data centers are pumping it on top of climate change.

I'm afraid that the level of security needed to safeguard such users would be a dystopian nightmare. I'm sure a lot of them are the kind to just download and install random crap on Windows too. Once again, freedom and security comes at odds.

It's also useful for big server applications like Nextcloud. I use snap for Nextcloud since it was broken on Fedora when I tried it.

It also had an install script that will be run as root when the package is installed. Can't sandbox that.

He could have started working before that. When I started a project, I don't immediately start a git repo.

Insert GTA4 meme.

I find it funny because the kernel of mostly written in C and guess what you have to do all the time in C?