stepanzak, Why not? It always seemed to me like a lot of duplicated work to package everything on every distro.
Chewy7324, Yes, but each package manager has it’s (dis-)advantages. It’s great to have flatpak and docker to be able to run software on almost all distros, but the OS still needs a way to update.
Almost all immutable distros use multiple package manager.
- Fedora Silverblue: rpm-ostree + flatpak (+ toolbox)
- OpenSUSE MicroOS: zypper with snapshots (transactional-update) + flatpak (+ distrobox)
- NixOS is unique since it only uses the Nix package manager
- immutable Ubuntu will probably only use snap for OS + apps.
All those OS support distrobox and docker additionally.
merthyr1831, all the more reason to sunlight these old packaging formats and move to universal solutions like flatpak and nix
AlijahTheMediocre, Oh no, apps directly from the developers, the horrors
AlijahTheMediocre, Flatpak with OSTree or ABroot, the future is now. Although it would be nice if Silverblue would automatically create a container and install non-flatpak apps into it, then add desktop.ini files automatically:
possiblylinux127, Fine. You can do what you want but for me personally I will just use flatpak.
umbrella, (edited ) bad take, from a user AND developer standpoint
Geert,
MooseBoys, Least helpful debugging duck.
jackalope, How you make the duck?
FuglyDuck, The is not the question you should be asking.
You should be asking how they got a video of me before I ever sent it to anyone…
shea, i don’t agree with your takes but i love your spirit. also lol that image filename
Geert, Mate I use flatpak too it’s a meme I reposted not created
Perroboc, What about cosmopolitan? github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
ledtasso, Is it used for any serious apps? I saw they released the “cosmos” which is very impressive but mostly seemed like basic utils that were already available in Linux/Mac?
mariusafa, Hey that’s pretty good, thanks!
djsaskdja, Flatpak seems quite nice now days
IverCoder, (edited ) This is essential for the year of the Linux desktop to come.
ReginaPhalange, 50 years and counting.
Any day now…
AlijahTheMediocre, 32 years, Linux ain’t THAT old
Shatur, (edited ) I see how it can be convenient for some distros to get the latest version or install something that is not in the official repo.
But I use ArchLinux and we always have latest versions and big repo + AUR, so I never used universal packages.
Karcinogen, Frankenstein is a surname. The mad scientist’s name was Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Since the monster wasn’t endowed with a first name, the only name it would have is Frankenstein: the same last name as its father.
prenatal_confusion, The assumption being that he is a child of some sorts for doctor Frankenstein. I haven’t read the book.
lnee, He clearly men’t the xkcd version of Frankenstein
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