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Do you use containers for desktop software? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kyoji@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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If you do, what is your setup to run and maintain the containers? Have you experienced any problems that have been show-stoppers?

They seem like an attractive option in some cases, but I'm curious to hear how people use them for general computing.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I use Flatpak sometimes. Unfortunately, I've had issues with Flatpak packages being less maintained than apt packages and having weird bugs related to sandboxing. I try to avoid unofficial Flatpak packages of applications that have official Linux support compatible with my computer.