Personally I like the idea of universal sandbox apps. Flatpak and snaps all the way for me.
If you can choose. I wasn’t able to get chromium installed without hunting for a .deb and I needed USB access which snap didn’t give me
The biggest issue to me with snap (unless something has changed since the last time I looked it up) is that it’s all a walled garden by canonical and it’s not open source (in the sense of package submission, review, rating, source availability, etc).
With flatpak/flathub you can see the source and discussion behind each package
https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories
But that transparency doesn’t exist on snap so you are just hoping canonical did their homework on vetting apps
Snaps are for sure in second place here
I like the idea of it, but I had to install flatseal to get a bunch of really important things like password managers to work.
I would like to see the experience improve, especially things where casual users won’t know how to do it themselves.
Once everything is set up it’s very nice though.
Installing Flatseal is hardly a huge chore. But I agree the whole thing should be more seamless.
I like snap but this is still hilarious.
Snaps filled up my root directory with all their ridiculous and mandatory backups. I had to get rid of them. Flatpaks are alright, but nothing beats native packages.
Snap is fine
But a proper package manager is better, and we already had that.
All my packages manage to get seized by law enforcement
You must be using the wrong repositories… try enabling
apt --please-dont-track-me-fbi
