I can say with great certainty that the only package format that we don't need is Snap. AppImages and Flatpaks both have their place, but Snap is just a great way to find yourself wasting time because their shitty fucking sandbox system doesn't work properly (and also doesn't sandbox at all if you're not running AppArmor ๐คก).
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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I don't think there were any standards for this sort of thing when Flatpak and Snaps first came out, and they arrived at the same time and have pretty big differences. So this doesn't apply.
The answer is "yes". Especially for noobs, they are a life saver. My distro's repository is missing a lot of things that I can easily get with flatpak.
It's also useful for big server applications like Nextcloud. I use snap for Nextcloud since it was broken on Fedora when I tried it.
Honestly I threw Immich-snap on a VM and all my "Immich updates breaking things" problems went away