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| ▲ | morshu9001 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Flatpak and Snap are new to me, and that's the annoyance. Like I get if there's some technical advantage to a snap, but apt can install snaps too. Also idk what .appimage is. rpm was a thing that existed but wasn't a Mint way of installing. Tar, yes. I can see why you'd consider a tar a package, but I was thinking of things actually designed for packages, and tar isn't really an extra thing to learn and deal with. Port tree, idk never heard of that. | | |
| ▲ | esseph 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Flatpak and Snap are new to me and that's the annoyance. These were designed to solve different problems. PS - Just avoid snap. Fuck snap. All my homies hate snap. Flatpak otoh is software basically delivered in a container with some security restrictions. It works great, but you may want a GUI problem called "flatseal" to enable access to certain parts of the host filesystem, device access, etc depending on specifics of what the particular application is supposed to do. That's a bit of a security boundary (good). Flatpak does solve several big issues with the minor and only occasional need to use flatseal to enable access to say something in /proc /dev etc Snap happened in 2014 Flatpak in 2015 So you've got about 10 years of catch-up ;) | | |
| ▲ | morshu9001 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I'm not really obligated to catch up on that. I'll try Linux again if they ever sort these things out, until then Mac is a fine dev/personal machine. | | |
| ▲ | plagiarist an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Are you sure that's okay? It has App Store, .pkg, drag-to-install, homebrew, MacPorts, and who knows what else! | | |
| ▲ | morshu9001 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | MacPorts vs Homebrew is actually my biggest gripe with Mac for dev stuff, but at least it doesn't get in the way of installing basic software. Regular stuff is always a .app. |
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| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I'll try Linux again if they ever sort these things out You don't understand. This won't be "sorted out", this is a feature. Maybe it's just not for you, and that's ok. | | |
| ▲ | morshu9001 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You said it yourself, "fuck snap." But Snap is the default for a bunch of things. There's probably someone else saying "fuck flatpak." The user doesn't win this way, it's not a feature. | | |
| ▲ | eikenberry 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Snaps are a Canonical thing and is only used by default on Ubuntu and distro's based on Ubuntu. No other distro uses or recommends them. |
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