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Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by PlutoIsAPlanet on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:17AM (#35357641)
> These formats might be OK for desktops, but are absolutely awful for servers, containers, etc., which, incidentally, are where Linux dominates.

Containers have already won the war on the Linux server, there's no point Flatpak etc trying to compete here. Additionally, desktop software is a complete design paradigm to server software. I wouldn't even say they make sense to be in the same package manager.

Although they do share tech, ostree, namespacing etc.

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Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by manuelabeledo on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:31AM (#35357838)
> Containers have already won the war on the Linux server, there's no point Flatpak etc trying to compete here.

There are things that you just cannot run inside a container.

Also, in cloud environments, default provisioning is not done with containers, which makes sense, but directly causes the issues I mentioned, e.g. Amazon provisioning SSM on Ubuntu Server instances.

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