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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 14:00:08 JST It's FOSS

   What's your pick? 🤔

   #linux

   • Yuki Linux (eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 14:03:43 JST Yuki Linux

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     @itsfoss I honestly wish more things were app images just because they’re easier to deal with. Flatpaks if I absolutely have to like bottles. And snaps well I would rather not have them exist at all.

     At the end of the day, I prefer nix packaging and the arch repos. 

   • spikederailed (spikederailed@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 14:04:01 JST spikederailed

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     @itsfoss Native Package > Flatpak > AppImage > Snap

     If you don't have canonical AppArmour snaps run in devel anyway, both negating the sandbox benefits while also crapping up your lsblk with squashfs virtual drives for every snap.

   • Dustin Tungilik MacDonald (dustwin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 14:48:41 JST Dustin Tungilik MacDonald

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     @itsfoss Snaps work fine for me. I also use Flatpak as well. They provide me the software I want. No more breaking my system with PPAs. All in all I would prefer a snap app and wouldn't be unhappy if it ran better or only option was a flat. All this angry talk about snaps like everyone is running Trisquel with zero blobs. But, hey it's Linux so there is choice and options for everyone.

   • TintedKiwi (tintedkiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 15:10:20 JST TintedKiwi

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     @itsfoss I tend to prefer Arch repos > AUR > Flatpak.

     Don’t really care for AppImages, they usually have an AUR package available.

     I will never have snaps on my system. Of the two, I have chosen Flatpak and am sticking with it.

   • Brian (bonlinx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 20:28:22 JST Brian

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     @itsfoss Flatpak all the way, it annoys me when I cannot get a program in a flat pack version especially one where there's no reason for it not to be. Never use snaps and hate using app images.

   • Back To Analog (backtoanalog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 22:49:47 JST Back To Analog

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     @itsfoss

     snaps and flatpaks are pretty much the same, snap is best for server, flatpak for client. For me - it's appimages and flatpaks.

   • Máňa Zalabák (mana_z@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 07:54:16 JST Máňa Zalabák

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     @itsfoss From these three, Flatpak for sure. AppImage Is a great idea by itself, but non-transparent non-sandboxed fixed blobs worry me from security perspective. Snap is inferior: sandboxing not working cross-distro and proprietary centralized server side are major turnoffs

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:00:29 JST It's FOSS

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     • Linky~

     @linkachus17 Nice 😄

   • Linky~ (linkachus17@misskey.de)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:00:35 JST Linky~

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     @itsfoss@mastodon.social I prefer just building it (AUR is pretty much building it from source too)

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:01:09 JST It's FOSS

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     • Brudi Bräu

     @brudibrau A great pick. 😃

   • Brudi Bräu (brudibrau@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:01:10 JST Brudi Bräu

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     @itsfoss RPMs and DEBs. But if I have to pick one of the above, it's Flatpak.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:01:44 JST It's FOSS

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     • Late Night Defender 🏳️‍⚧️

     @latenightdef Flatpaks are a good fit for Silverblue. 🙌

   • Late Night Defender 🏳️‍⚧️ (latenightdef@f-social.techtransthai.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:02:01 JST Late Night Defender 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @itsfoss@mastodon.social As a Fedora Atomic (Silverblue) user, flatpak worked best for me.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:03:07 JST It's FOSS

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     • Bloodaxe

     @bloodaxe Cool 😄

   • Bloodaxe (bloodaxe@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:03:08 JST Bloodaxe

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     @itsfoss I'm very happy with my Flatpak-experience personally, but I don't mind AppImages either!

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:05:16 JST It's FOSS

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     • Sebastian Gallehr ☮️

     @SebastianGallehr As things stand, that might not happen anytime soon.

   • Sebastian Gallehr ☮️ (sebastiangallehr@norden.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:05:17 JST Sebastian Gallehr ☮️

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     @itsfoss
     Snaps are coming with Ubuntu so usually i Take snaps
     Hopefully the Major Distributions will decide foe one.

   • tobilinz (tobilinz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 23:36:18 JST tobilinz

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     @itsfoss I prefer Flatpak because they don’t pollute my home directory with random files that don’t follow the xdg convention. Also when I want to remove an app I don’t have to clean up lots of leftover files in many different places.

   • Sooraj Sathyanarayanan (ianonymous3000@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 04:48:48 JST Sooraj Sathyanarayanan

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     @itsfoss From a Security POV: Flatpak > Snap > AppImage

     Based on the attack surfaces:
     - Flatpak stands out with strong sandboxing, granular permissions, and XDG portals, though shared runtimes remain a concern.
     - Snap offers isolation and auto-updates but raises questions around snapd daemon risks and centralized repo reliance.
     - AppImage prioritizes portability over security—limited containment and weak trust chains.

     Thoughts? Did I miss anything?