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[-] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 27 points 2 hours ago

I think I've landed on Flatpak as my favourite between Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage. AppImage, when it works, is nice though. Snaps are just kind of inconvenient (auto-updates are a no for me) and bloated and the things Canonical are doing as an organization put a bad taste in my mouth.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 19 minutes ago

I've had bad experiences with AppImages. For universal format they do a really poor job at that. And it's a huge step back into Windows direction that you'll have to manually download, update etc your shit. Makes managing a bunch of apps a pain.

[+] NateNate60@lemmy.world -9 points 3 hours ago

Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

[-] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

I just can't... like maybe I'm too old and that's why I still can't wrap my head around how we went from "./configure && make & make install scripts are almost the de facto way to install software in linux" to "a sketchy install script". We're living interesting times at Linux

[-] fireflash38@lemmy.world 4 points 40 minutes ago

Blame the thousands of supply chain attacks.

[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Last time I ran a corporate-made installer, it caused massive graphical glitches and lock-ups after waking from sleep. It basically gave my system computer-AIDS.

That's why I never run scripts which are too long for me to easily understand outside a sandbox. Official distro repositories and Flatpaks are the only sources I have some level of trust in.

[-] d_k_bo@feddit.org 11 points 2 hours ago

I would prefer manually writing each software using butterflies over having snapd installed on my system.

[-] elidoz@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

obligatory "there is always a relevant xkcd"

[-] msage@programming.dev 22 points 2 hours ago

Very unpopular

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 0 points 42 minutes ago

I'd rather be able to use my web browser uninterrupted without it being updated while using it and be forced to restart it.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 8 minutes ago

The updates download in the background and will install when you exit the snapped app. If you really don't want automatic updates, you can run snap refresh --hold to hold all automatic updates or add a snap name to hold updates for that snap.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

And what do they offer over flatpak?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 18 minutes ago

Better cli experience and the permission prompts are two that come to mind.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 11 minutes ago

A built-in way to have services running (which is why openprinting can make a snap of CUPS but AFAICT can't make a Flatpak).

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