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Unpopular opinion: that's fucking stupid. I personally will never use flatpaks.
Ok here is a bit of a rant Fr, Especially on Arch based distros where the Aur (which is wayy better) exists + I don't use gnome I use Cinnamon(Gnome done right)
Yup. AUR forever FTW.
Really? Why not?
I find them incredibly useful for some applications.
For some development stuff, though, I still prefer to use the installed version.
So VS Code, for example, I have that installed.
The flat pack just does not work as well.
But Podman Desktop, which is a flat pack, is just excellent.
I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.
The space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won't be duplicated.
Oh that makes sense.
In this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well.. it doesn't works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms... if 512, it will be different..
Too much storage. Only apps, no dependencies or drivers, which makes them 100% useless to me. So I'm Still relying on the repos to install dependencies and drivers, but splitting my workflow and installing flatpak apps? No, thanks. Too much hassle on theming and system access. Often times on the steam deck I try to do something and it doesn't work and I start scrambling for a while to fix it, then realize I don't have permissions to do so then have to go find flatseal and start fucking with shit. Just too much hassle.
Dependencies are contained in the flatpak. That's why something like zenmap. Which requires python 2. Can run on a system that doesn't have python 2 installes
That's it. You've solved it. Flatpaks are the best. Give me one driver I can install as a Flatpak. Anything that is non-app that is flatpak
Ok, enjoy 😊
That is fucking stupid, but mostly because why on Earth should you drop a valid package format plenty of people use? Forcing rpm out will force people to use dnfdragora for that, creating two different app stores for one distribution.
Flatpaks are IMO good and are a great option for a casual user who doesn't want to accidentally screw up their system. Fully packed isolated dependencies, permission systems and other features make them great in many ways.