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?

  • afb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like Snaps on my server, not on my desktop. Flatpaks are fine. I use them for stuff I wouldn’t compile myself anyway (mainly proprietary binaries) but I prefer compiling my own packages where I can.

  • featured@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Flatpak is fantastic. I think containerization is definitely the future of Linux app distribution, because the security and portability are so much better than native packages. Flatpak is the best implementation of this concept IMO, because it has a robust permission management system, is completely open unlike snap, and is performant with fast load times, solid deduplication of dependencies, and no garbage loopback devices