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This is a quick intro if you want to learn more about the mentioned snap package format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqdf89hRo

The article somewhat erroneously equates snaps and flatpaks. While flatpak focuses on GNOME, snaps are more broadly geared to any Linux software needing transactional updates (databases, Electron apps, docker/k8s, etc).

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> flatpak focuses on GNOME

It is developed by people involved in Gnome, but it's desktop-independent. http://flatpak.org/faq.html#Is_Flatpak_tied_to_GNOME_

These days it is damn hard to tell where Gnome ends and Freedesktop, never mind Fedora, begins.

All too often it feels like Gnome and Freedesktop is out to fix "problems" that only exist within Fedora, in the process turning every other distro they touch into a Fedora clone.

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