Merlijn Sebrechts

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Senior researcher at imec and teaching at Ghent University. Ubuntu Community Council member. Research on cybersecurity and trust for software & AI.

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Why is there only one Snap Store?

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Snap and Flatpak are the basis of two universal app stores for Linux: the Snap Store and Flathub. Interestingly, Flatpak has multiple repositories: Flathub is the main one but both Fedora and Elementary OS also host their own store. In contrast; there is only one Snap store. Why is that?