Flatpak vs Snap - Which Linux package format is Better?

Explore differences between Flatpaks and Snaps and decide for yourself which format is better!

Flatpak is an application packaging and delivery mechanism initially developed by RedHat engineers under the Freedesktop organization. It enjoys wide spread use on the GNU and Gnome front but little use besides that (contrary to popular belief).

Snappy (aka snapcraft) is a package manager developed by Canonical for Ubuntu but can be used with any Linux distribution. Is heavily used in cloud-based and embedded solutions such as IoT gateways and cloud computing instances.

Flatpak and Snappy are fundamentally different because Snappy itself is a package manager, whereas Flatpak is more of an application containerization engine with management tools built-in. Both formats are open source and can technically run on any Linux distro.

Snappy has seen far more usage and deployments than Flatpak because of its target; development and enterprise computing. Despite this, KDE applications such as Krita and Okular can be found in Snap stores whereas they are missing from common Flatpak repositories (as of this video).

Likewise, Gnome applications cannot be found in Snap stores but nearly all Gnome applications can be found as Flatpaks. ~~ Support the channel! Becoming a Patron or Ko-fi supporter gives you access to the Egee video archive & good vibes for supporting my videos!

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