Snap and Flatpak Package Formats Benefit Users and Businesses Alike

ZDNet’s opinion piece on new package managers like Snap and Flatpak reasons that their existence is a good thing for new Linux users. But more importantly for business, they represent a reliable way to develop and package applications once and still cover all the main distributions. In the editor’s opinion, some great (if proprietary) applications such as Zoom are only available on Linux because of these formats.