Re:Flathub: One million active users and growing
by different_base on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:20PM
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> flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works
You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format.
Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.
You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format.
Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.