Alternative packages/formats/methodologies

[wiak]

Just a somewhat recent youtube on difference between Appimage, Snap and Flatpak formats (including, on main youtube page, more recent comments under this video, which are worth reading since also contain other links/information/opinions):



Another alternative is:
https://guix.gnu.org/download/

GNU Guix 1.1.0 Binary
Self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and its dependencies, to be installed on top of your Linux-based system.

and this run-usage-comparison is also very interesting I feel:

https://verummeum.com/portable-package-formats/