Flathub aims to be the place to get and distribute apps for Linux. It is powered by Flatpak which allows Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
And they did, with bsdiff, an algorithm invented awhile ago. I wish system package managers carried this/weren’t actively dropping their implementations :(
Flatpak shooould just download the diffs
They should, actually. Google released a tool for downloading only the diffs on binaries a few years ago
They use ostree afaik, so “they should” as in “I think they do”
And they did, with bsdiff, an algorithm invented awhile ago. I wish system package managers carried this/weren’t actively dropping their implementations :(