FLATPAK is the FUTURE of LINUX application distribution

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00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Get 100$ off your own Linux server 01:48 Why older packages don't work anymore 05:55 How is Flatpak any better? 09:47 Why not Snaps or AppImages? 11:25 Flatpak is NOT the future? 12:51 Sponsor: Get a shiny Linux device 13:15 Support the channel

The Flatpak is not the future blogpost: https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

Why do we need flatpak?

Well, first, there's the dependency hell. You might have recently seen one example of that through the Linus Tech Tips challenge: installing Steam removed the desktop environment entirely. That's an extreme example, but a very recent one, and other, smaller ones happen very often.

Second is app distribution. These good old packages need to be made for every distro, for every release, for every architecture. Just Ubuntu alone will net you tens of packages to make, for every update.

PPA's, introduce more dependency hell, as they can contain library updates, that might break other apps that don't come from this PPA.

There's the fact that installing a package is super insecure, as the package basically has full root control when being installed, so you better trust that install source 100%

But is Flatpak really any better?

First Flatpak is universal. This means that you can install the same package on any distro that has the flatpak base installed, which is mostly everyone but Ubuntu these days. Developers package once, and distribute everywhere.

Second, Flatpak doe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs9QpPKDw74