HOW WE TESTED…
We’ve decided to focus on application installation, but we haven’t ignored the installation of system components, and we’ve given that subject its own section.
We looked at the process of making a package, but we found that the procedures for standard, traditional packages such as RPM, AppImage, Flatpak and Snap were similar. None of them was really beginner-friendly, but we wouldn’t expect them to be.
We searched the repositories for apps such as GIMP and Kdenlive to get a sense of the relative freshness of packages available in each format. We also took into account that some formats are more popular than others on the websites of open source projects.
When examining traditional package managers such as RPM and DEB, we’ve had to give an aggregate assessment as there is some variation between them in terms of features. However, all of the mainstream ones basically, accomplish the same job and go about it in the same way.
We’ve decided to focus on application installation, but we haven’t ignored the installation of system components, and we’ve given that subject its own section.