On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
They can be useful:
I wanted to install kscanpage, which is KDE stuff.
PC 1: I install it as flatpak, it finds my ScanSnap scanner. No KDE stuff
installed directly on my system.
Does flatpak require a service to be running similar to snapd? Is flatpak
also reliant on a backend store (run by Canonical or similar)?
My understanding from reading your replies is that snap/flatpak/appimage
all consist in images that get mounted through loopback devices, right?
Once mounted, can you look at individual files in the images, or is it
like a black box?
I also read that snap makes booting slower and snapd adds load on the CPU
(either when a snap package is running or always). There is also the issue
that updates happen automatically and cannot be controlled by the user.
It seems that I cannot install snappy on openSUSE Leap 15.4 since it is no
longer available in this (no longer officially supported) distribution,
but only on Leap 15.5 and above. But I don't think I would do it otherwise
since I have an alternative how to run skype if I need to.
Thanks for all your replies and conversation,
Gianluca
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/research/
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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