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Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by staticlifetime@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why should that happen at all? I'm quite happy using one of the major distributions. The software that I want to work works, and it's reasonably reliable.

[–] Glome@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Immutable OS's like fedora silverblue tend to prefer flatpaks due to the read only nature of system files. Yes, you can rebuild the image and layer the rpm package over the rest of the system, but that's really supposed to be kept to a minimum.

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