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Appimages, snaps and flatpaks (lemmy.world)

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Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flatpak is the best one imo. Never used appimages, and snap is pure trash (close source, slow, made by canonical). Overall, native packages are imo the way to go, but flatpak is also fairly good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Snap isn't really closed source, it's common misconception, the closed source is only backend (canonical servers), the snap core itself, which is installed on Ubuntu, is fully open source

Edit: snap definitely sucks tho

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

@KotoWhiskas @sohrabbehdani @Rega If you can't effectively use it without the closed source part being open doesn't mean much.