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Flatpak/appimages fixed the fragmentation pain, but discovery is still a maze. missed opportunity: a curated storefront with builtin Lightning payments so developers get paid instead of doing open source charity forever.

My preference is AppImage if available otherwise I go with the distro default and as last resort 'sudo apt install'. AppImage works great because I run one main host with numerous VMs serving different functions. I locate the AppImage on one disk shared to all VMs. The one install and execute fr...

I know a lot of people would like apt install. I personally think the best experience is something like Openclaw. Just copy paste a 1 line into the terminal.

apt or flatpak... Or download from whatever source website and verify. Sparrow Wallet has a nice tool for checking downloads. Haven't had much success with AppImage for some reason. Probably missed a step.

Flatpak and Flathub have solved the app distribution issue on most distros. People can fight it or come up with something better which I doubt is happening in the near future... maybe Kaiming if Chinese companies invest in it.

Install from source, apt, sometimes snap

Snappy (snap packages), yes it is canonical yes the store is not really open but technically the best solution (from point of security). And it ships possibly to all important Linux Distros.

I get it using the distro's package manager. That's it. If something is not there, or I need a bleeding edge version, I use flatpak. Overtime I found that this approach works very well for me.

I just use nixpkgs, all the packages are hash-verified. Cool

I typically go with whatever the app maker recommends. RPM is common. Flatpaks are common. AppImage is less common. Sometimes you get a tarball but that is way less common than it used to be. Flathub (as a flatpak source) has gotten a lot better, but I like to make sure a Dev is the one who actually...

paru btw

Slackware user here and a lot already comes with it. And those not I'll build from source or search in slackbuilds

More people should set up repos and get added to extrepo instead of publishing a .deb and expecting us to dpkg -i

I learned reprepro and had my own repo (apt get) for a few years. Woowee was upgrading things annoying. Until I got into automation with bash! I mostly build from source, or sometime grab binaries from git if they build for my architecture.