Flatpak and Snaps

>>60175339
>>60175339
it's a fucking retarded idea, copying microshit way to bundle dll's with each and every program you install.
just let it bit-rot, fuck flatpak and snaps

>>60175403
What are the supposed advantages of them?

>>60175464
not having to worry about what libs ship with your distro vs what program requires. it's supposed to be a solution for a non-existant problem if you're using a distro with a good repo

>>60175339
Because AppImage is better.

>>60175930
What's the difference?

>>60175606
>non-existant problem if you're using a distro with a good repo

So none of them? Even Linus admits that application distribution in Linux is fucked for non-base software (starting at 56:55 in this video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8

>>60175606
>distro with a good repo
kek lost

>>60175606
Most software that targets “Linux” targets Ubuntu and misses a large part of the market, and Ubuntu repos aren't as up-to-date as many developers want it to be. This kind of library-bundling definitely isn't the silver bullet and has very real downsides, but there's plenty of scenarios where it's the correct answer.

>>60176544
>aren't as up-to-date as many developers want it to be
This is what's going on. Developers want everyone on the latest version so that they don't have to bother with supporting old versions, getting bug reports against anything except what they're working on now, etc.

Distros know that there's a lot of users who don't want to be on the bleeding-edge update treadmill, so although some of them stick close to upstream, several major ones don't. Most prominently Debian and RHEL/CentOS, also Ubuntu LTS. Even several of the faster distros want at least some release-based (instead of rolling) system, so that they can give users something that's at least somewhat stable and tested.

Snap and Flatpak are devs trying to do an end run around the distro maintainers that are inconveniently, from the dev's point of view, not pushing a new package version as soon as upstream releases it.