Pacman > Flatpak > won't use it
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Neither. I exclusively use Nix packages. If I had to pick, AppImage because I can easily extract it to package for Nix :P
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I prefer all of them (including Snap) we should have a kid together and ask them their preference.
I'm still trying them out, but if they work as advertised, then AppImages. That's mostly because I use my desktop and laptop pretty much equally, so being able to copy and AppImage from one to the other and keep going would be really handy.
On a similar note, if a computer dies, being able to just copy and paste them to a new computer, or run them from a portable drive would be great.
yes appimages are good but my problem with them is that when there is a new version i should download them again and again....
Have you met appimageupdater?
None of them
I prefer the AUR, but if I have to use one of the three it's gotta be an AppImage these days.
I used to swear by flatpak, but because I'm on nvidia it just turns into a stupidly bloated mess since it never removes older driver versions. They're certainly not "bad" though, and I use them on my SteamDeck for sure.
I preffered AUR over flatpak before as well but that changed more and more every time a AUR package didn't launch anymore or didn't update anymore because of some build error. I actually started migrating a lot of stuff over to the flatpak version because it just works.
I've had pretty much the opposite experience most of the time. Constantly dealing with flatpaks not opening or other weird issues that would go away as soon as I tried the AUR version or just installed it manually from the repo.
Weird. I've never had an issue with flatpaks, which makes sense since it's exactly the same on all systems. If it didn't launch for you, it shouldn't have for anyone else either, so the issue should have been fixed before the developer released a new version.
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I don't think I've ever actually found a flatpack in the wild. Not a fan of snaps but have a few appimages that seen to work fine.
Snaps, hell no. I wouldn't touch anything Canonical TBH.
Appimages are very chaotic.
Fkatpaks leave a bunch of trash after uninstalling.
I use Flatpaks, while they are not perfect, they are improving.
Fkatpaks leave a bunch of trash after uninstalling.
From my experience, most of the things I'd like to delete after uninstalling are in ~/.var/app/(App ID)/.
I've only used flatpak and I honestly see no reason to try anything else. The only issue I've encountered is that Steam games launched by the Steam flatpak occasionally act strange (sometimes they can't locate graphics drivers or connect to online services).
Snaps. Everyone seems to hate them for ideological reasons rather than practical reasons. But for me, they just work. And if Canonical gets out of line, there's already been proof of concepts of third-party snap repositories, so that's a moot point.
Flatpaks seem like a solution in search of a problem to me. Not everything is a gui app, so not sure why the devs aren't supporting cli apps well. But the biggest problem is that most software I use simply isn't available as flatpaks.
Cli apps not being available as flatpaks is a huge oversight. It makes using flatpaks as my main source of applications a non starter.
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The arch repos are enough for me except two softwares so I downloaded them as appimages. Appimages are enough for my small needs.
Flatpaks are insecure by design as they don't cryptographically verify their authenticity after download. Snaps too.
Install with a proper package manager that was designed doe security. Most OS package managers are designed with this.