Nix is just across the street sipping tea because it understands what it is and is at peace with the chaotic world around it.
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AppImage is the no-nonsense universal package format.
It's not about the package management method that we use. It's about the friends and enemies we made along the way (while arguing about package management.)
That's because we are...
If .y Firefox will once again be updated without asking me and then refusing to open any page without a restart I'll fucking lose it
I need nothing but apt or dnf. Miss me with that other junk.
Muh portage thoπ²
I use apt and flatpak. They both are good for what they do.
Why do you need flatpak
Because it just works. After being with computers all day fixing the insane problems that other people create I just want to come home and press buttons and have things work
I use boring Debian, so apt and older packages, and flatpak for a few programs that I want up to date.
When using certain apps I prefer them being containerized on my system. It's case-by-case for me. I keep steam containerized, my web browser containerized, etc.
But..why
In the case of steam and web browser, the containerization means I can control their access permissions via flatseal. This adds another layer of security, since they're both web-accessing applications, and it's easier than setting up a VM to run those applications.
Be aware the sandbox of flatpak is not safe for web browsers, specially firefox based browsers:
https://seirdy.one/notes/2022/06/12/flatpak-and-web-browsers/
https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/#security
https://github.com/uazo/cromite/issues/1053#issuecomment-2191794660
Ah, wasn't aware. Will have to look into it more.
ensures software support when the developer in question is a moron
Weird way to spell pacman
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laughs in Nix and NixOS
Hadn't snap fixed a lot of the complaints people initially had?
Probably, but the stink will linger for quite a long time.
There's a burger place near my house that I use to go to almost every week. But then the quality started going down, and I stopped going there. That was two years ago. Maybe they fixed the problems, but I'm not going to know - because I no longer go there. Snap is like that.
Has it? My complaints are: I have to use VPN software for work that replaces /etc/resolve.conf with a symlink to another location, one that sandboxed snaps can't access. There's no way to grant them access; the "slots" that you can connect are fixed and pre-defined. You can't even configure the file path; it's defined right in the source code. Not even as a #define, but the string literal "/etc/resolve.conf". That seems like poor practice, but I guess they're not going for portability.
Also, I have /usr and /var on different media, chosen for suitability of purpose, and sized appropriately. Then, along comes snap, violating the File Hierarchy Standard by filling up /var with application software.
Minor annoyances are the ~/snap folder, and all of the mounted loopback filesystems which make reading the mtab difficult.
I think the main complaint is that it seems like Canonical is trying take control of Linux packaging. Don't they handle their stuff in a way that pretty much prevents third party 'Snap Stores'? Like, their backend being closed source and their software only accepting their own signatures?
I dont know for sure so disregard what I say. but I remember reading that users could host their own snap repos but canonicals one was the only one at the moment. Everything about snap is open source except the webserver.
Yeah the API is open and there used to be an open store, but lack of interest ended up with the project shutting down. As it turns out people don't like alternative stores nearly as much as they like the idea of alternative stores.
Are there enough watermarks on this meme? At least we got reddit covered.
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If flatpak didn't make me put the entirety of KDE onto my system (thats an exaggeration but you know what I mean) I'd gladly crown it king of the package managers.
I just want to point out the dependencies of Konsole (arguably a small and simple application in concept): glibc gcc-libs icu kbookmarks kcolorscheme kconfig kconfigwidgets kcoreaddons kcrash kdbusaddons kglobalaccel kguiaddons ki18n kiconthemes kio knewstuff knotifications knotifyconfig kparts kpty kservice ktextwidgets kwidgetsaddons kwindowsystem kxmlgui qt6-5compat qt6-base qt6-multimedia sh.
Plus make it hell on earth to a) access drives other than the one flatpak is installed on, b) interoperate with non-flatpak applications, and c) retain any amount of free space on my drives (exaggeration for effect).
Yeah, flatseal should come stock with flatpak IMO. You will have to configure many apps to get them to play nice with your system.
This is a "security" feature and I'm so tired of it. Same thing with Wayland, random crap doesn't work sometimes
Wayland is trying to replace a standard that people have been saying is obsolete for a decade. I'll give them a bit of leeway.
Psst .. the first KDE app you installed via your package manager also put "the entirety of KDE" onto your system.
i don't think I use any kde apps on my system at all
Indeed. As much of how loved and popular KDE is, fuck it. I use the glorious XFCE. XFCE is beautiful too. Fuck, I'm not the maniac who would waste 2GB just for my DE to look beautiful.
Like a bunch of old farts in a coffee shop arguing over which truck brand is better.
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