Flatpak and App Packaging
Discussions center on Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, and similar tools as solutions to Linux desktop app distribution challenges like dependencies and sandboxing, often comparing them to traditional distro packages.
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Hence the existence of flatpak and similar.
How's this different from FlatPak?
Things like Flatpak or Snap try to solve this problems. Do you think they don't succeed?
Why not simply use Flatpak instead?
Flatpak and AppImage would like a word.
Isn't that the reason flatpaks or snaps exists?
I believe flatpak provides all of those advantages too
Can you name these advantages over Flatpak?
Are these Linux app distribution problems solved by using Flatpak?
Isn't that the idea behind flatpak, snap or appimage?