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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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[–] jennraeross 1 points 1 year ago

For GUI apps, flatpak is a pretty good way to get a consistent experience. All of my devices can dependably have identical versioning and functionality. Being able to manage permissions with flatseal is just a plus on top of that.

Regrettably, CLI app support just isn’t there yet, and probably 80% of my non browser usage is in the terminal… I’m eager to see how Nix takes off in that regard if they ever get things a bit more polished up for users. I’ve used it and loved it, but there’s no way my younger siblings could manage their own devices if I switched things to Nix