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?

  • Choctaw@lemmy.radioEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I reject Flatpak and Snap, but do use a couple Appimages (Electrum and Trezor Suite). I was playing with Snap and Flatpak, and noticed right away how terrible Flatpak was when I downloaded Cointop, small simple CLI application and it was an enormous download. There are also a lot of security issues though they’ve probably mitigated some of them. Also remember that Red Hat is the one pushing Flatpak which has some value for enterprise customers, but they could also tailor a package to a particular distribution. Snap is pretty much dead except for Ubuntu’s immutable OS which will probably go nowhere as they’ve lost to Red Hat. But this write up is a great overview from 2021:

    https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

    A major goal of most of these technologies is to support an “app store” experience: Docker Hub, Flathub, the Steam Store, Snapcraft, and AppImageHub (but not AppImageHub?) These technologies are all designed around this model because the owners want a cut of sales revenue or fees for enterprise distribution. (Flathub only says they don’t process payments at present. It’s coming.)