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   Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 03:42:56 JST Megan Fox

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   Weird bonus question here: I saw a mention that adding snapd to KDE Neon (not sure why you would but go with it) would slow it down a bit on an old laptop, saw that snapd actually requires a daemon (huh?) and so:

   - wait do all of these add resident daemons or is snap just weird?

   - is the above concern overstated or valid?

   Again, not sure why I'd add snapd to Ubuntu, I'll just use flatpack, it's just weird that daemons get involved to me I guess

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 03:42:58 JST Megan Fox

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     Ooooh. Got it. It's basically a way around the dependencies problem of apt-get, where this one requires This version of the library and that one requires That version of the library, and if you install this then that, oops, now it all breaks. Basically?

     I'm guessing everyone also sorta panicked and moved to flatpack/snap when they realized how much apt's dependencies system left their ass hanging in the wind security-wise? That threat vector wasn't as recognized or worried over, early on.

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 03:42:59 JST Megan Fox

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     And I'm hearing apt-get actually does get binaries also (mostly), so now I'm further scratching my head on wtf all these new containerized thingies are.

     Like aren't these all just apt-get in a funny hat? 😭

     Is the main difference just that apt sorta only works by string name so you gotta know what it is and know it's there, whereas flatpack and the rest seem to be built more around web portals so you can just say "look, bro, just show me the fuckin Dropbox please"?

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 03:43:00 JST Megan Fox

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     and then, having said that, is there some downside to using the containerized versions? For some stuff (Godot) I do actually need to provide my own executable cus I might build it myself, and I gather that maybe I'd have to make my own container or (something?), but for everything else like. Sure. I don't care where the Dropbox was built. I just need it to run on this OS, done. So flatpack just, works? That's the new cool shit?

     Last time I poked at this was Debian and apt-get was the cool shit.

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 03:43:01 JST Megan Fox

     Ok so general Linux confusion about distributions now. I understand apt-get, more or less, but

     - wtf is Snap
     - wtf is Flatpack
     - wtf is AppImage
     - wtf is DistroBox

     Are these basically all just containerized ways of snagging a pre-built binary that slots in more like a normal executable would?

     Is the main diff that apt automates the build for you, whereas (gesturing) just grabs a containerized prebuilt?

     Where does "I just downloaded an x86_64 and made a manual shortcut" fit into this scheme?

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2026 11:08:42 JST Megan Fox

     • Thiago, al que llaman Jedi

     @jedi oh, huh! Weird. But thanks!