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What is ?
Apt or distro package manager of choice.
No, APT is the past 20 years.
They lack packages
Use arch with AUR, and cross your fingers that at least someone checks the changes. I sure don't.
Those need root and don't isolate apps from the base system
Yet curiously they're far more secure. Huh.
No they aren't
It completely invalidates the Android security model if something can arbitrarily bypass restrictions.
Thankfully we don't have to follow the dumb Android security model on desktops.
on Qubes we still have security through compartmentalization, yet all systems have root access (even passwordless sudo)
I'd say flatpak isn't the future because it's already here and seems to be universally accepted as the cross-distro package manager.
I do like how the Nix package manager handles dependencies, but it's not suitable for app developers packaging their own apps because of its complexity.
If a better flatpak comes around I'd use it too, but at least for graphical apps I don't know what it'd have to do to be better. In my opinion, flatpak is a prime example of good enough, but not perfect and I'd be surprised if there was a different tool with the same momentum in 15 years (except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).
For what it is worth you can install Snap on most distros. https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd
but you shouldnt because snap's "strict confinement' sandbox feature does not work without the legacy patches to Apparmor that ubuntu uses.
Snap is a cesspool for malware and shovel ware. The best apps are packaged by Canonical. Also, when people still cared about Snap, there were frequent reports of incompatibilities because it was developed with Ubuntu in mind.
Snap is shit. I started using flatpak because apt didn't support apps that I wanted and snap only supported ancient releases. .deb is annoying too and .appimage I don't like to have the files hanging there
I left Ubuntu when apt wouldn't let me install a native package. It just would redirect to a broken snap.
Ubuntu may have convinced some proprietary developers, but Snaps are shit and devs know that I think
No idea