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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

While I don't think flatpak shouldn't replace traditional packages, I still like it.

Flatpak apps just work most of the time, they work without issues and are often very up to date. The sandboxing does have benefits because no apps interfere with it, the problem is that it doesn't work super well with other apps, sometimes the theming is off, and it doesn't work well with other apps, installing apps takes much longer, and it isn't as easily started from the command line.

Edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

In my opinion, with a debian style distro as the example, apt-get should be used for syatemwide stuff. Individual users can go for flatpak.