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?

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    1 年前

    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.