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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

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

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.

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 …

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