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Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know you can have many versions of a library on your system at once, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As long as they don’t cause conflicts. You know dependency hell is a thing right? The reason flatpaks were thought up in the first place? Right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nice out of date dependencies with those lovely security vulnerabilities!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Touché

Developers shouldn’t be out of date, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That got so spicy so fast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Besides that it's only partially true (unless we speak Nix systems) That's also not the point of it. It's more about having runtime environment that an app was built against and tested with.