How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

  • Destide@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Best of the three major agnostic package formats. If it brings more focus to Linux development, I don’t see how it can be a bad thing. A bit more space needed but for most setups this is a non-issue

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      8 months ago

      Plus, being able to sandbox user space applications, which previously had free reign, is nice.

      Sandboxing isn’t 100% there yet, but it’s come along way.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah duplication of running libraries is also a RAM/CPU resource issue but for modern well resourced machines probably not noticable. It is an issue when scaling down to low powered / old devices though. Like, running a web browser which runs in it’s own sandbox with duplicate libraries running is going to have noticable performance differences compared to a non-sandboxed program running native libraries on a low RAM or low CPU system.

      That’s not to say Flatpak isn’t a good solution; and all the agnostic package formats have the same issue compared to non-sandboxed apps. Plus the added security issues and stability on bleeding edge systems is good.