A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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    3 years ago

    The Fedora software app has been promoting flatpaks over native packages, even not displaying that native packages are available even if they are, requiring the command line tool to access some native packages. So I don’t see how this is fundamentally different.

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      3 years ago

      The fundamental difference is that flatpak is a good system, adopted by many distributions.

      Snap sucks and only Ubuntu uses it.

      They’ll do like their Unity UI, wait many years until they realize their mistake then drop it.

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      3 years ago

      The big difference is that Snap is partially proprietary. For those who like Linux for its free and open-source nature and all the benefits that confers, this is an unfortunate evolution that has a negative impact on the Linux ecosystem.