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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] 4 points 1 year ago

I love flatpaks, they add a BSD like separation between my GUI applications and the rest of my OS, letting me update them safer. I've run into issues, but once flatpaks really mature and cross-app integrations are added over time so things "just work", it will be a real staple on the Linux desktop.

Fuck Snaps unless you're on a server.