I know snap is fairly unpopular in the Linux community, and I’ve seen mixed responses regarding Flatpak. I wanted to know, what’s the general opinion of people in this community regarding this 2 package managers?

  • @notavoteEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    my mirst contact with snap was while trying to instal lubuntu to some old laptop, and was confused why Firefox too minutes to start.

    If you want me to use something - better make it better than original thing. This was terrible experience, I needed some time to disable it and find a way to installed real package.

    And don’t hide it from me. And let me choose.

    So I don’t like it, I don’t care about technical advantages, if there are any, I will not use it because someone forced it upon me. o can not support such behavior.

    Flatpaks are too big. And most packages I wanted have serious bugs. And I never found how to change font size in those apps.

    AppImage is great, I use it for gimp, inkscape, libreoffice and some other software packages I rarely use. but they don’t have official repository, so I will not take binaries from some random people on the net. nor use google as my package manager.