Many like myself don’t like the old idea of downloading stuff that “just runs”. It’s too much going back to the old ways with windows where you randomly just downloaded a binary off a website and ran it.
Basically it’s the equivalent of sideloading apps on mobile devices. I won’t do that either unless it is required.
Now I do have one such app, in appimage which is my preference anyway. KDEnlive, which I run as an appimage Vs the Debian package only because I’m on Debian 10 on my main machine and have yet to pencil in the upgrade time.
Now, GNU Guix is interesting. Cryptographically secure and verified compilation (or pre-compilation) of source code straight from GitHub etc. Now, that will be more like it!
Appimage IS an attempt to bring windows style software (mis)management to windows. Flatpak is more like bringing android style app management along with limited permission sets, permission portals, and some sandboxing. It also leverages the server spaces container principals more and more to do!
Guix is also super cool! In fact using guix to build OCI containers and flatpaks to me is natural evolution of the declarative/reproduce able image concepts introduced by both.
why is this lame?
Many like myself don’t like the old idea of downloading stuff that “just runs”. It’s too much going back to the old ways with windows where you randomly just downloaded a binary off a website and ran it.
Basically it’s the equivalent of sideloading apps on mobile devices. I won’t do that either unless it is required.
Now I do have one such app, in appimage which is my preference anyway. KDEnlive, which I run as an appimage Vs the Debian package only because I’m on Debian 10 on my main machine and have yet to pencil in the upgrade time.
Now, GNU Guix is interesting. Cryptographically secure and verified compilation (or pre-compilation) of source code straight from GitHub etc. Now, that will be more like it!
You wouldn’t go to a website and download something (unlike AppImage), you would install it through Flatpak.
Appimage IS an attempt to bring windows style software (mis)management to windows. Flatpak is more like bringing android style app management along with limited permission sets, permission portals, and some sandboxing. It also leverages the server spaces container principals more and more to do!
Guix is also super cool! In fact using guix to build OCI containers and flatpaks to me is natural evolution of the declarative/reproduce able image concepts introduced by both.
He’s a flatpak reactionary, probably an arch user.
Not all Arch users are the same I guess.
I use arch btw
Had me laugh out loud hard. Am an arch user. I use flatpak to avoid soiling my pristine libraries with 32bit libs.
possibly artix, without any init system (he start processes by hand)
I mean, flatpaks are cool and all, but native packaging of distro repos is the non plus ultra for me.
Im a redhat user, and also dislike flatpaks, snaps, and allat. The only sane “uber package” is appimage and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.