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What is the point of Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, etc?
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If people want the Linux desktop to become more ubiquitous in homes, it better damn well be the next evolution. Someone’s grandmother isn’t going to get on the command line when apt inevitably decides to break.
The concept is not new, and Apple has had .app containers for a very long time that almost always just works. So clearly the concept has long been proven.
Perhaps flatpak, snap, appimage aren’t the final forms of this concept on Linux, but it’s a step toward making application packaging and distribution much more friendly for the common masses.
That Apple can get their own relatively narrow platforms to work really says very little. Shocking if they could not.
As far as home use, Linux works fine. Both my wife and father in law use it too and they are not technical. Cannot remember the last time I had an apt issue or any other issue.
As far as snaps being better. Not my experience. I will take a native package any day over this other stuff. Just more integrated and reliable.