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    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

    Haha, I break snap a lot less than the others, and it took a bit to figure out the differences. Appimages are annoying af. Flatpaks are my favourite when there isn't a good old .deb. I recently broke Flatpak though so it's on my naughty list. Snap still chugging along for some reason, I just wish the permissions weren't so crazy strict (Nextcloud).

    Speaking of all this, I realised I've accidentally installed some things twice. Is there a good way to list all the different package managers together to see what is duplicated?

    [–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    How do you break a flatpak?

    [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

    Asking the real questions here.

    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I broke Gnome and now I have Flatpaks that don't launch. I don't want to reinstall so I am slowly fixing things.

    [–] tc4m@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

    You can try flatpak repair. Or it could be a leftover .desktop file for that app.

    You can check if that app is still installed with flatpak list

    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 43 minutes ago

    Yeah that isn't the problem haha. I have deleted something gnome is not happy about. This has been a few days of tinkering. I think I actually just might have fixed it. Fingers crossed, anyway.

    [–] danhab99@programming.dev 25 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Nix is just across the street sipping tea because it understands what it is and is at peace with the chaotic world around it.

    [–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 20 points 11 hours ago

    Gentoo is too busy compiling to notice what's going on around it

    [–] stebator@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

    I use NixOS and Flatpak (Nix-Flatpak) to install software that is not available in Nixpkgs. Unlike Arch's AUR, Nixpkgs has fewer popular packages. However, Nixpkgs beats AUR in terms of quantity because many Nixpkgs packages are redundant.

    [–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

    Nix organizes Bohemian Grove.

    [–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    AppImage is the no-nonsense universal package format.

    [–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

    Absolutely my favorite. Just download and go. Super portable.

    [–] JakobDev@feddit.org 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    AppImages have a lot of problems

    [–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

    Like not updating or shared dependencies duplicated for every single app image

    Just use flatpak

    [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago

    or they somehow still find a way to not work. I can count the number of times i had an appimage just work, and it is exactly 2. Any other time i had crashes

    [–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

    It's not about the package management method that we use. It's about the friends and enemies we made along the way (while arguing about package management.)

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    What's wrong with Snap?

    Proprietary servers.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Can you elaborate a little? I imagined this meant something like Visual Studio Code' Marketplace (which doesn't allow non Microsoft products to connect), but I don't see anything about that on Snap's TOS.

    To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, I'm just trying to understand.

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I don't think it's a TOS thing, just a lack of open source server software? To the best of my knowledge, it's just not possible to host my own snap server. At least, I didn't find any solution when I looked. Which seems weird, for an open source operating system.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 59 minutes ago

    Surely it can be reverse engineered by the API that snap uses?

    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    That's because we are...

    If .y Firefox will once again be updated without asking me and then refusing to open any page without a restart I'll fucking lose it

    [–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Wait hold on wait, does that bullshit have something with Firefox being distributed through Snap?

    If it does, I'm going to sn... also fucking lose it

    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Yeah, it's snap

    Always updating without letting you know, without asking and it's ALWAYS at the most inconvenient time

    Ah gotcha, it's not the cause but it makes the problem way worse

    [–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    I have bad news for you ....

    (TBH I am not sure, but as I remember, this problem was specifically a snap problem.)

    [–] blarth@thelemmy.club 22 points 20 hours ago (15 children)

    I need nothing but apt or dnf. Miss me with that other junk.

    [–] null@slrpnk.net 19 points 20 hours ago

    Weird way to spell pacman

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