Snaps, Flatpaks and the Problem of Choice
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Channel: OldTechBloke
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Length: 38min 32sec (2312 seconds)
Published: Sat Jul 25 2020
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Systemd and now Snapd in a month.......... trying to outdo Dr. Fauci in the popularity stakes?
I have both installed as I use whatever Google shows first in the results that works as my Installation preference. When it comes to Arch it's normally AUR, but if that fails I go further down the Google Results Rabbit Hole.
You are a pain in the A... now that you've pointed out the issue of updates and security, ignorance was a much happier place.
Nice overview.
Canonical history demonstrated they are not able to go by themselves:
Therefore I bet my 50 cents on flatpaks (Red Hat, Suse).