• yaaaaayPancakes@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Flatpack isn’t without its own quirks and flaws. There is no One True Way. Being open-source, there shouldn’t be one.

      It is definitely slow though, mostly on first run.

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        9 months ago

        Being open-source

        Yeah, that. That’s exactly the problem. To quote @Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever above, who put it much better than I could:

        . . . the main issues boil down to concerns over some parts of the Snap ecosystem being closed source, Canonical’s ongoing efforts to try to get some of the Red Hat “premium linux” money, and arguments that other solutions (e.g. flatpaks and appimages) are “just as good, if not better”. And it doesn’t help that Canonical/Ubuntu is increasingly pushing snap as “the only solution” for some applications.

        When you speak of no single One True Way and things being completely open source, Canonical/Ubuntu have already left the chat.