I read it is better than flatpak/appimage/snap.
"Adapting Snap on deepin: Since Snap has many compatibility issues except for Ubuntu, we gave up.
- Converting some of our homegrown apps to AppImage: AppImage has good portability, and these apps can easily be used on other distributions. However, it doesn’t have centralized repository storage and package management, and doesn’t provide the same level of sandboxing as Snap and Flatpak, so its security can’t be guaranteed, and it’s not suitable to be used as the default package management method for the operating system.
- In 2017, deepin followed up the Flatpak format and completed the construction of 100+ packages, but did not continue to adapt due to the large size of the application, excessive disk
occupation, slow bug fixing and other reasons. "
Did someone consider it as better alternative for these package formats or is this just “15 standard” for package formats because deepin wanted to make something.
Are there any distros which use it apart from deepin and which is packaged in this format, because I want to drop flatpak because it takes too much space on my system.
from deepin? the DE that got yeeted from suse and fedora? nty.
I think it’s also important to state that they were dumped by them, not only because of security vulnerabilities, but that after you had agreed to licensing terms inside the desktop, Deepin would download and install packages outside of the open source repos.
That’s some sktechy ass Microsoft tactic right there.
not long ago i was installing and testing pretty much everything i could get my hands on, just to see what was ‘out there’ these days. which did find me putting deepin (via suse) on a system to see if it was worth anything.
it was not. horribly broken. and that system required a firmware recovery just to function after that.