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Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?

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[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] sohrabbehdani@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

aur is limited to arch based distros only

[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

aur is limited to arch based distros only

And rpms are for redhat tree, so ?

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None of the above. Native debs/rpms/whatever for desktops, docker images for servers.

Your example package is readily available in my distro in native was my point. If your distro doesn't have it then maybe you need to change distros.

[–] constantokra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you check packages you install from the aur? I ask, because it seems like people don't. I did, and it was a pain in the ass, and that's why I stopped using arch and arch based distros.

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