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Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not? (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Flatpaks are good, especially compared to snap.

The future is atomic OS's like silverblue, which will make heavy use of things like flatpak.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Having nails driven into my testicles is better than snap. It's not a high bar.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Haven't had much opportunity to use snap, what's the problem with them?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    For me, it's the unrenameable, unmoveable, non-hidden snap directory in my home directory's root that doesn't even follow the naming convention of the other directories in there.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What everyone else has already said, plus sudden updates that nuke active applications.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    > plus sudden updates that nuke active applications.

    This is not what's supposed to happen. If an app installed through flatpak is active while it's receiving an update, then the update is not supposed to affect the running application until it's closed/restarted.

    Edit: Somehow I didn't realize the concern was raised against Snap and not Flatpak.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Immutable OSes are difficult to use for coding or other tasks that include installing many terminal utilities and for that reason, I don't recommend them and certainly don't want them to be the future of Linux distros. And if I'm going to create a container running a different distro to install and run the apps I want to use, then I may as well use that distro on my host.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Snap is not all bad if you're on a Ubuntu based distro, I just don't like the way it's pushed and that it comes from Ubuntu mostly. Startup time is a major issue for me also, but all in all it works.

    I'm still sitting on the fence, heavily prefer flatpak but when Ubuntu is going to package nvidia drivers in a snap it's a thing I'm up for trying.

    My understanding is that if I'm on Ubuntu and the snap uses the same underlying Ubuntu version as my distro it should be fast but I haven't seen it.

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