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?

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year ago

    I’ve come around to liking Flatpak.

    • I don’t have to deal with dependency hell I sometimes get with third party packages (AUR/PPA)
    • I don’t have to worry about make dependencies
    • I don’t have to deal with clutter in my home directory, they are mostly encapsulated in ~/.var and easy to clean, discover even asks me. Especially if I try the app for 10 minutes and device it wasn’t for me. Espexially for apps that don’t follow XDG base directory specifications (which is too many, but that’s another post)
    • I get some (imperfect) sandboxing and control over what an app can access, especially with proprietary things like Discord …

    Anything I need to get into a desktop environment should come from the distribution’s repositories and package manager. For user applications, Flatpak is great.