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my thoughts

  • lol i just completely forgot about snaps
  • Nix can’t be installed in the standard way on inmutable distros :(
  • Homebrew is actually good, it’s exactly like your usual package manager and works with /home as a symlink, however it can take up a lot of storage since it pulls it’s own dependencies and that GCC thing is another one
  • distrobox/toolbx have their usecases, but until things get better it can be used as a last resort
  • and good old AppImages, I think they’re good for slow moving projects and games, but a large amount of them are not really portable, which defeats the purpose of AppImagws in the first place
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did you know about pkgforge repo? it’s an interesting project however, even package managers for portable formats are sort of fragmented

I don’t like depending on GitHub so I don’t consider GPM, Soar and AM seem too similar… and I still have to understand what makes dbin stand out

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yay I think Flatpak has potential for CLI apps, they just need a nice way to expose aliases to the host actually, there are some CLI apps on Flathub so I still don’t know how that “no terminal apps” criteria is handled

didn’t know sysext were so cumbersome

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I think OP means “to make it more accessible” to non tech-savvy people, because yeah, decentralisation adds a layer of complexity that turns people away, and that’s not what we want I think enhancing the Sign Up process inside native clients would make it easier to give them an idea of how this works