One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Thanks for posting that was really informative i was always intending on learning more about package managers at some point. What I wonder is when you want a package and it’s available as both a dnf package and a flatpack which one should you chose?

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        Appimmages seam a lot like reverting to the old way of downloading packages like the installers you see in Windows and macos are appimages somehow better or different?

      • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.

        I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.

        Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.

        I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.