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This will provide you with a sandboxed VM, but that VM is an entire OS, not simply an app with limited access. This means no sharing of libraries, no minimal dependency packaging, and your configuration per host is entirely your problem. It can be used to provide single app sandboxing, but this is not VBox's purpose. See More
While there are attempts to try and keep Flatpak applications secure, most applications have filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions, which allows the application to write to the disk anyway, meaning that one malicious update to an application can lead to a major security issue. See More
While Flatpak is a nice sandbox approach, I don't see Flatpak really taking off compared to Snaps. Flatpak packages are bloated compared to Snap counterparts, Sandbox is easily breakable (too weak sandboxing), and its very flimsy in support compared to other distro-agnostic packages. See More
Flathub's repository has (at time of writing) 1082 apps available, including almost every popular linux GUI software I've ever searched for. It integrates into most linux DEs very well, and is fully supported by gnome-software, plasma-discover & others, allowing easy graphical package management in any DE. See More
SnapCraft. I don't use it enough to write a full review but I've used enough to give my pros and cons. See More