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Are snaps different than portabelApps.com project?

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Are snaps different than portabelApps.com project?

Hi,

we always use snapcraft.io project on ubuntu. It is very similar to portableapps.com project. I had read that they will develop their platform to work on Mac and Windows. Can anybody explain what the main differences is portableapps.com project and snaps?

- main similarities:
-- they include the libs of spesific app inside it's own dirrectory
-- they dont touch other directories on system

- main diff:
-- they dont use "user-home" inside app directory

Thank you

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Not Portable

Snaps is designed to make installing apps locally easy. Snaps are not portable or self-contained.

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But on their official site

But on their official site (snapcraft.io) writes:

"snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies"

"sandboxed, containerised applications isolated from the underlying system and from other applications"

"Just put all the files you need into a directory, use whatever subdirectory structure you want."

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