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?

  • VincentEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Thanks to Flatpak, I can have basically careless OS updates with Fedora Silverblue, so I’m very happy with them. I also appreciate the fact that every distro that can run Flatpak automatically has a wide range of software available to it.

    I’m sure Snaps have similar advantages, but I haven’t worked with them much. I don’t really like that you can only publish Snaps through Canonical though, so in that sense I hope Flatpak wins.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same here with Silverblue and Flatpaks. It reminds me of my phone—almost impossible to break the OS and apps are easy to install. Of course Silverblue has more to it, but when it comes to just using the thing, it’s very easy.