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  • igorlogius@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlI had a realization today
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    1 year ago

    well, with stuff like this i meant dpkg-reconfigure, since i switched to nixos where configuring and setting up basically means adding/editing a couple of lines in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. For automatic system updates for example, i just had to add: system.autoUpgrade.enable = true; and done. Nicest way to configure and manage a system i’ve experienced yet.












  • igorlogius@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWho does flatpak/snap benefit?
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    1 year ago

    There are a few runtimes which provide quite a few things already (for desktop and system integration) and there are a growing number of modules for other commonly used stuff, example ffmpeg (de/encoding) which other flatpaks can reuse. Also flatpak uses OSTREE to try and prevent duplication.

    The more the devs work with it the better their packaging and bundeling is gonna get. At the moment it is new and they have to re-learn some things and not everything might be done in the best way possible, but that will improve with time.

    And i think it benefits everyone. Devs and distro maintainers dont need to repackage, test and integrate stuff for all distors and users have stuff that has an almost 100% chance of working out-of-the-box that is also quicker with updates/fixes.

    IMO, overall an improvement in comparision to the current state with deb/rpm/pkgs/… for userspace applications.