Snap out of it

There is no software that is not in AUR. I use arch, BTW.

If you don't compile from source, do you even Linux?

Native package manager > Native binaries > AppImage > Flatpak.

Yes, snap isn't even on the scale.

Why not just stick to what we've always been doing?

wget something.tar.gz
tar something.tar.gz
man tar
tar xzf something.tar.gz
cd something
ls -al
./config.sh
chmod +x config.sh
./config.sh
make config
Try to figure out where to get some obscure dependency, with the right version number. Discover that the last depency was hosted on the dev's website that the dev self-hosted when it went belly up 5 years ago. Finally find the lib on some weird site with a TLD you could have sworn wasn't even in latin characters.
make config
make
Go for coffee
make install
SU root
make install

I’m currently on a atomic distro, so how I get my software from favorite to least favorite is this:

Flatpak
Appimage
Fedora distrobox
rpm-ostree

Native repos > AUR > compile from source > Flatpak

Compile from source
Find alternative
Deploy in VM/Docker

If I wanted snap, flatpak or appimages, I would use windows. Shared dependencies or death.

Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.

Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD

I hate fucking snap. It might be enough to make me switch distros if Ubuntu keeps up with it (which I am sure they intend to).

The continual "you have new snaps" or whatever it was message every time I'm just trying to have a web browser open made me eventually figure out how to install firefox for real on all of my computers.

EDIT: I think you may have convinced me to try out Debian on my next OS installation.

Download the sources and build it, like Kernighan & Richie intended.

curl

AUR. If it doesn't exist on AUR (very unlikely, but happens sometimes), I make a package for it.

On non-arch distros, I often use LURE.

as it should be, nobody likes proprietary vendor-locked formats that get shoved down your throat

AUR or flatpak.

Honestly the longer I spend daily driving Linux the more I enjoy using flatpaks...

Wow a reference to those Mac Vs PC ads from like 15 years ago

I try my hand at packaging it for my distro.

Linux noob here, can someone ELI5 why snaps are bad? And how does .deb works?

Artix repos > Arch repos > existing AUR package > create my own AUR package

No need to use any of these flatpak/appimage/snaps when I can just make a package for my distro. Most software is not difficult to package.

it's called snap cos thats what the community will do to your bones if you use it. apparently

OCI

I don’t really like neither of the 3, personally. But I understand the need and the benefits

For some reason the first time I read it, I thought it was an "L" so now I always call them "Apple mages"

How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?

Since i use a gaming arch based distro (Cachyos) the aur

.deb first and then flatpak if not available as on deb repo or if deb version is outdated. Never used appimage or snap. Rpm just as good as deb when I use Fedora. Flatpaks are much larger in size which is why I first go with the deb version.

Nix, if not in nix pkg for nix, then nix

AppImage, build from source, or don't bother

I have yet to find a need to go outside of the Debian repos.

I understand appimages. I use them exclusively. Can someone explain what flatpak and SNAP are and how they work? I have autism so please be as clear and concise as possible?

Install from source if there isn't a repo for the software.

If it's C or C++, I get the source from the project's GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don't read, I usually use the AUR.

Also,

GoG for games
Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
AppImage sometimes

If I could, I'd compile all my software from source. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of open source developers don't like writing software in C, which means the burden of sorting through dependancy-hell has been deferred to my shoulders instead.