@HerraBRE I would say snaps, but I'm an Ubuntu member. And I worked on Snapcraft for a while.
The big reason is that even though Flatpak exists in my distros it's not setup with repos by default. So users still can't find your stuff.
@ted That's an interesting point.
I've already got automated Debian packaging sorted, so Ubuntu is kinda already taken care of. Flatpak might give me more bang for the buck.
This is all just idle pondering at this point, I wasn't aware of the repo complication, thanks for pointing that out.
@HerraBRE it sounds like you're thinking about them as packaging formats, which they are, but that's not the most interesting part. The biggest change is converting to a confinement model for your application. It puts a lot of pressure on developers for a huge user win, though developers get wins too in a more direct access to their users.
For instance, you can make a snap from a deb really easily. But it may not work.
Also, I don't expect my next Ubuntu desktop to be able to install debs.
