Installling apps from app store or yast what is the diffrence

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I am a new user ı dont know the diffrence

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There’s an app-store??? Are you talking about the Discover program??? A lot of programs (not all) there are flatpak based. You won’t find flatpak programs in Yast. Flatpak programs tend to take up more space since they are Linux universal and run on most distros

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But, Flatpak’s are sandboxed and safer for the system. Yes?

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Yes but always trade offs. openSUSE does not package there offerings in flatpaks . It is all up to you to decide

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Just use an immutable distro. :+1:
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Anyway, to @osas319 … what is an “app store”?

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In any case.

  • YaST is the native system management tool of the openSUSE distribution.
  • Yast > Software contains several items that interface with libzypp (the other one is the CLI interface zypper) and it is the native method of managing software repositories and software packages from them in openSUSE.
  • The openSUSE distribution comes with a predefined set of repositories (we often call them “official”) like OSS, non-OSS and their Update ones.
  • Other repositories are not the responsibility of openSUSE, nor is their contents tested with the standard testing tools.
  • All software coming from elsewhere (whatever method is used: RPM package, tarball, simply copy, Flatpak, …) is not native to openSUSE, thus enjoy at your own risk (nevertheless people here are often willing to help with problems :wink: ).
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