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The Future of Flatpak

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306 points dxs | 1 comments | 22 May 25 23:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dartharva ◴[23 May 25 03:24 UTC] No.44069580[source]▶
It still irks me that AppImages (the unambiguously superior choice) are not more successful than Flatpak or Snap solely because Linux users (in their characteristic laziness) are only used to getting their software from monolith stores and repositories.
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1. plst ◴[23 May 25 11:49 UTC] No.44071979[source]▶
I love AppImages, but Flatpak tried to go way beyond - centralized updates, sandboxing/permissions system, package once, run on many distributions...

Getting software from repositories is not just laziness, you automatically get updates and the software from repos is supposed to work with your distro, that apparently is not always true with AppImages.