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Cake day: October 18th, 2019

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  • Flatpaks are great for GUI apps, and have a sandboxing system that allow them to work well on any system that support flatpak. This allows devs to package once run anywhere, saving Dev time! It also has a portals system to allow for better system integration of the granular permissions needed for the app to actually work (nobody wants a truly isolated sandbox for every app).

    Snap is less featureful for GUI apps, but work closer to how native packages do. The real issue is the proprietary app store required for it, making non-foss. If you want the same benefits of snap, check out Guix and NixOS both of which have a more cleaner design, and work better IMHO.














  • Agreed. Its news for sure, and maybe it speeks to some broader topics (like if the wider linux community wants things what RHEL offers, how would we go about doing that), but this isn’t some Judas kiss to the Linux world.

    I am contributing to the topic though, because people are taking it to an extreme looking at even avoiding Fedora, the community ran distro, that have nothing to do in this decision.