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What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

submitted 8 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 8 months ago

I dont use insecure tools to install software

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

The picture is too big.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where's that Chris Pratt meme? --

I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once

make apps that work on every distro
thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
make everything nice and user friendly

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 8 months ago

I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are awesome but personally I don't use them. I have an obsession with memory management. Flatpak apps don't share libraries so they get chunky at times. This shouldn't be a problem for most people. It's a personal problem.

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[–] 4vr@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

I didn’t want to containerize every installed app. Switched to Arch and don’t have to worry about it.

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