What is a flatpak and why should I care

flatpak is a method of installing applications in their own containerized environment. Flatpak was develeoped by Red Hat/Fedora, Gnome, and other developers.

flathub flathub.org is a repository for developers to distribute their flatpak applications.

snap is a method of installing applications in their own containerized environment. snap was developed by Ubuntu (Canonical) developers.

I prefer flatpak.

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snap is also developed special for the IOT market ? like those robots that has ubuntucore structure…

That one was renamed. It’s now called Bauh. It has some more capabilities than just managing flatpak stuff.
It aims to be a graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. It supports AppImage, AUR, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications.

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