[vox] Flatpak vs Snaps vs Appimages vs Packages

[Bill Kendrick]

I admit I'm a bit new to the whole concept of 'snaps' (and also sometimes
struggle with some of the development-oriented packaging systems, like 'npm'
for JavaScript and 'pip' for Python), and I found this short video
(thanks, YouTube recommendation system!) kind of useful to understand the
new ecosystem.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HuExVD56Bo

I started with RedHat and RPMs, and quickly learned about "RPM dependency hell"
(not unlike "DLL hell" on Windows), and Mike Simons of LUGOD got me into
using Debian at work and home.  After a time, I switched to Ubuntu --
specifically the Kubuntu flavor, because I was a big fan of KDE 3.5 over
Gnome.  (When KDE 4 hit, I dug up ways to keep going on KDE 3.5, which my
wife Melissa only _just_ stopped using, skipping from KDE 3.x to Plasma 5.x
when she got a new laptop.)

There are definitely some pros & cons to the new-fangled software distribution
schemes that are out there, and this video covered a bunch of them (but in
the end, the fellow who made the video has no preference, and uses them all
in different situations).

Anyway, enjoy!

-- 
-bill!
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