>Linux mint 18.3 has preinstalled Flatpak, and plans in future fully implement it as a part of future releases, to get bleeding edge versions of apps without losing stability.
Archlinux just got BTFO by mint.
Linux mint 18.3 has preinstalled Flatpak, and plans in future fully implement it as a part of future releases...
Robert Diaz
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Austin Cooper
What if I'm already past the flatpak novelty phase?
Grayson Bell
snaps are better
Nathaniel White
>get bleeding edge versions of apps without losing stability.
this is a contradiction in terms. Instability comes from upstreams who don't care about stabilty and push tons of buggy updates that break things, because thats easier for their devs. Its an inherent consequence of running bleeding-edge versions, whether you get those versions as flatpaks, snaps, through a conventional package manager, or compile them yourself.
Hudson Young
Funny image, senpai. Kill yourself with that spelling though.
Nicholas Wright
>flatpak
>snap
Please kill yourself
Jose Perry
>cinnamon
>superior DE
top kek
James Carter
In the flatpak (and snap) case, it prevents unstable dependencies affecting other packages, because they are only loaded during the unstable app's use
Leo Stewart
Actually if the devs bundle the whole environment they use in development, they avoid a lot of bugs.
So you can get bleeding edge version somewhat stabler than with regular packaging but you lose security because lazy/bad devs can use old, unpatched libraries much longer than they would last otherwise.
Alexander Harris
>Archlinux just got BTFO by mint.
Why? You can install snaps and flatpacks in Arch, or any other distro for that matter.
Isaac King
This will avoid mint's incompetence regarding mismatched versioning, package builds and namespace collisions that come from mixing together the repositories of three different slightly incompatible distributions resulting in strange breakage and lack of stability.
It's a good move from the mint team, because clearly they were too stupid to manage anything else.
Meanwhile, it gets rid of some of the greater benefits of a Linux system. Namely, system-wide security patches for all software not using packaged libraries, smaller binary sizes and so on.
William Morales
BLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT
Brandon Jenkins
...
Juan Torres
>apps
Henry Campbell
>frankenDebian
>infoworld.com
Yeah.. right
Parker Bell
What is that picture supposed to depict?
Kayden Gomez
Probably that the default theme of Mint is ugly as fuck
What is your picture trying to depict, that Mint can use non default themes like Arc? So can Arch :^)
Grayson Morales
>using the smiley with a carat nose
Christian Ross
>doing it ironically so asperger anons will get mad about it :^)
Parker Reed
what about appimage?
Ayden Cruz
>using the smiley with the carat nose
Christopher Lopez
t.virgin arch user
Josiah Lee
Outdated.
Mint dont have xedit but xed. MDM was replaced with lightDM.
Linux mint always pushes security updates and they changed update policy.
Iso no longer contains copyrighted software (But it can optionally download if user wants).
Linux mint is more stable than ubuntu (not much but still), pretty nice for frankendebian.
Joseph Myers
That's neither Arc nor Mint.
Parker Ross
Finally I'm Chad
Charles Phillips
It is though
William Myers
But it`s not preinstalled, user!!!!!1111
So it means if I ever decide I want to use it, I`m gonna have to waste two whole minutes of my precious time installing it, instead of just clicking on a button that's been there for ages, occupying space on my drive and workspace just waiting for the day, if ever, when I want to click on it and have it juuuuuust weeeeeerk, user!