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@darius and, more confusingly, how it's different from AppImage, and which is better

28 Nov 2020 at 20:22 | Open on bananachips.club
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Darius Kazemi

@nev mostly I am just sad that I now have many gigabytes of snaps taking up hard drive space for some reason

28 Nov 2020 at 20:23 | Open on friend.camp
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@nev @darius

wait, here comes flatpak: :oh_yeah:​

28 Nov 2020 at 20:25 | Open on toot-lab.reclaim.technology
Darius Kazemi

@djsundog @nev so is all this an ecommerce thing, ultimately? I am just wondering why I should care about any of these things and what they do for me as a user (I understand there are benefits to developers) that apt did not

28 Nov 2020 at 20:26 | Open on friend.camp
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@darius @nev to your point, yeah, I don't think I've seen a user-centric defense of any of these packaging systems

28 Nov 2020 at 20:28 | Open on toot-lab.reclaim.technology
external quantum efficiency

@darius @djsundog @nev I'm using snap to install nextcloud. It's been working well so far, about a year in ... It autoupdates and is well encapsulated, so things don't break and do get better as software releases come out.

28 Nov 2020 at 20:51 | Open on aleph.land
Max

@darius @djsundog @nev I thought it came from a user centric ask: if you go to the website for say Krita or Inkscape, there is one, maybe two, Windows installers, one Mac installer, maybe store links for one, the other, both. Yet there’s something like a dozen Linux options some are installers with UI, some are package names to look up in a package manager, others are arcane bits of command lines and goat sacrifices. One Snap (or Flatpak w/e) could simplify …

28 Nov 2020 at 22:05 | Open on smeap.com
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