02-02-2019, 12:32 AM
There's another option called an appimage. https://appimage.org/ In an appimage the entire program is all self contained. Dependencies, libraries, everything the program needs to run is right there. It has the overwhelming advantage over flatpak and snap that there's no extra software required, and no special software ecosystem to get it running. Download the appimage, make it executable, and run it. Any distro. The downside is of course the extra space needed since like Windows every program will have its own libraries.
I bring this up because after trying other programs that only offered snap or flatpak options I found the best way to use them was to uninstall their respective ecosystems and find different software. Even downloading the Windows version and using WINE is a better option as far as I'm concerned.
I bring this up because after trying other programs that only offered snap or flatpak options I found the best way to use them was to uninstall their respective ecosystems and find different software. Even downloading the Windows version and using WINE is a better option as far as I'm concerned.