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What's your opinion on Snap/Flatpak, and why? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by IUsedTo to c/[email protected]

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I know snap is fairly unpopular in the Linux community, and I've seen mixed responses regarding Flatpak. I wanted to know, what's the general opinion of people in this community regarding this 2 package managers?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Thanks to Flatpak, I can have basically careless OS updates with Fedora Silverblue, so I'm very happy with them. I also appreciate the fact that every distro that can run Flatpak automatically has a wide range of software available to it.

I'm sure Snaps have similar advantages, but I haven't worked with them much. I don't really like that you can only publish Snaps through Canonical though, so in that sense I hope Flatpak wins.