Click Clack Flatpak
Click Clack (Flatpak?) Forcing Lomiri to Face the Music About a week ago I posted a Mastodon poll asking people what packaging system they use for their GUI apps. The poll unsurprisingly came out about 50/50 between system packaging formats and Flatpak, with Snap and… compiling from source… getting just a few points. This is unsurprising why? Flatpak has been a growing form of distribution for user-facing programs for the Linux desktop. I say Linux desktop instead of a specific desktop like GNOME or KDE because Flatpak aims to be desktop and distro agnostic. While Snap says that it is distro agnostic, in reality it is heavily tied to both systemd and Canonical, taking an Ubuntu-first approach to desktop apps. ...