• Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

      Atomic distros are cool, and I’m sure they will only get more popular, but I don’t buy the idea that they’re “The” future. They have their place, but they can’t really completely replace traditional distros. Not every new thing needs to kill everything that came before it.

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        3 days ago

        They have their place, but they can’t really completely replace traditional distros.

        As it stands, I kinda agree. But I truly wonder to what extent we might be able to close the current gap.

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      2 days ago

      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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        2 days ago

        You just move to user directory installation of most tools via brew on Linux. It’s not difficult. The Bazzite distro handles all this incredibly well via brew, flatpaks, and distrobox.

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      2 days 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.