flatpak vs snap
| *snaps your cock in half*
| well, all my friends use flatpak so I assume it should work better than snap?
never used any of those personally tho
| I heard snap is like docker and I think that’s cool and I want all my applications to have their own minimal OS I want to feel big and powerful like driving a big truck I want bloat I want a BIG footprint
| listen package managment is hard ok?
you have to like, set versions on packages, ok?
and then the software has to automaticly get the right version, ok?
also sometimes there are optional deps, ok?
this is just insane, no human can be expected to keep accurate track of this.
so we just put in all in a snap. because it's impossible for mortals to manage deps.
| I always was a Mint user (apart from Windows). I tried Xubuntu last year and Audacity from Snap took 600MB on disk. This is absurd. Never looked back.
| *flatpaks your nuts*
| >>1063266
Flatpak is ok, snap however is abysmal dogshit.
Whoever used it ran into multiple retarded issues with no solution but "it seems like snap fuckery, use native app". The ones I ran into are Telegram, rabbitmq. Notably canonical seems to be pushing snap hard and silencing all the issues with it.
This thread is closed.
| I was generally sceptical about distribution-foreign/independent packaging systems. I always use post-installation script to remove all snap related components after fresh finished *buntoid installations. It seemed very bulky to me, the integration of apps never worked well and handling the virtual filesystems snap creates feels super inconvenient/messy.
A few months ago I started trying out flatpak, and until now it works fine for me.
What are your opinions/experiences on this?