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GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks
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Unpopular opinion: that's fucking stupid. I personally will never use flatpaks.
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.
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..