My issues with Snap & Flatpak

Snaps & Flatpaks were supposed to replace traditional software repos with better & safer app containers. What happened?

Well, reality happened. It's been over a year since my last video about Snaps and Flatpaks and to be honest, little has changed. Especially with Snaps.

Flatpak 1.0 released this month which brought it fully out of beta-mode. Snap (Snapd, Snapcraft, etc) has been version 2 for over a year, though you wouldn't know that if you used it today.

Snap (also called Snappy) has its own little AppStore which can also integrate somewhat into the Ubuntu Software Center. Snapcraft development is largely sponsored by Canonical, the folks behind Ubuntu Linux.

Flatpak has it's own AppStore of sorts called Flathub. Flatpak and Flathub integrate into Gnome Software, though the breadth of this integration largely depends on your distribution. For example, the integration is flawless in Fedora, but more or less broken in openSUSE.

Ultimately, Snaps and Flatpaks do not replace your distributions software repositories, they at best augment it. If you are using Arch, just use the AUR.
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