Jon S. von TetzchnerJul 2, 2023

Technical Linux poll:

During the @Vivaldi gathering, we discussed a lot which Linux packages we should offer. We always try to be as flexible as possible and we already offer Linux support on Arm and X86 and we offer both DEB and RPM by default. My question to you is what are you using mainly for your installs?

I am sure some will say that their favorite packages are missing, but I can only list 4...

#Linux #Computer

DEB
43.9%
RPM
18%
Flatpak
32.6%
Snap
5.5%
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@jon @Vivaldi

flatpak and snap are not 'real' package formats. They are not native distro packages but fudges made by developers. Probably as a response to alien between the big two (deb/rpm)

Even canonical/ubuntu were not stupid enough to invent their own package format, choosing the massive .deb archive which already existed. Now, they are becoming insidious with snaps

I am rapidly moving to Manjaro and the pacman packages.

Jul 2, 2023 at 6:48pmWeb