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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

submitted 6 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once

make apps that work on every distro
thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
make everything nice and user friendly