Ask HN: Do You Prefer Flatpak, Snap, or Something Else?

   ./configure
   make
   make install

and barring that .deb packages

If you have two Flatpaks open, other one cannot write to disk(s). Openscad and Flashprint for example.

I cannot apt-install either of these, because I have "Held packages that cannot be fixed" whatever it means. I am never gonna upgrade this system, because it is too much work now and always turns into unfixable mess at some moment. Fuck You Linu(s|x).

So Snap to the rescue. Extremely happy with it.

I prefer native packaging. Snap and Flatpak are both pretty useless IMO, but I'll reach for Snap over Flatpak if those were my only two options. Partially to spite the Flatpak philosophy, but also because only Snap will let me install local services.

Oh, and AppImage is leages beyond both of them.

Flatpak, hands down. I can just clone the project, open it in GNOME Builder, done. No seeking for dependencies, everything is neatly packed and I can reduce the capabilities for each program.

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