Minetest gets scary when you look at the code and see that the engine they use is basically abandoned and will never get Wayland support. Afaik?

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomment-1916315391

They auto download binaries, even proprietary ones, unsigned and without user interaction.

YEAH security!

There is literally not a single useful comment here.

You have packages from outside the official main repo, in the universe repo.

You are using a stable Distribution so packages are frozen and need backported security updates.

You dont get them for the optional universe repos, but if you give them a bit of money (or afaik Ubuntu pro is even free for a few devices) then they will also support these 3rd party packages.

It is an optional service, they warn you that you use outdated packages, and offer a solution.

I dont use Ubuntu and Snaps are crap, but this is totally fine.

• proprietary server (snap store), unlike flatpak
• snapd only allows one server (but it is foss so you could just patch it), unlike flatpak
• nonexistent security on snap store, multiple times malware, unlike flatpak
• no sandboxing without apparmor and specific profiles, so not cross platform, unlike flatpak
• the system apps are also requiring apparmor, so not cross platform
• they lack granular permission systems afaik
• they concur with flatpak, which is horrible as we need a universal packaging format, not 3
• seemingly no reproducible builds?
• no separation between all, opensource, verified repo, unlike flatpak
• they pollute the mount list with all the loop devices

And people complain abour resource usage etc, but that is just separating apps from the system. Flatpak does the same.