flatpak

>>59777233
>flatpak
this is the first time I've head about this
it sounds sort of like docker but for desktop applications
I think the main issue is lack of publicity, and it seems like this would encur a lot of overhead with each application

>>59777233
>Why hasn't flatpak really caught on, yet?
Because it can't calculate the sum of all primes less than 2 million

>>59777302
I can't imagine the overhead would be that much, and the trade is getting sandboxing, which is good for security, as well as the ability to push one complete package that can be distributed to any distro.

Nix

Once steam goes flat pack then people will pay attention
It's basically a functioning and supported version of what steam on Linux attempts to do in the first place

>>59777327
"Complete packages" is basically the windows model where each program has different dependency versions.

>>59777233
Because appimages are better

>>59777233
Because there's no GUI yet.

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