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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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This is why I really like KDE Plasma's discover. It's got integrations with apt, snap, Flatpack, and rpm, and that's only the ones I've tried so far.
I don't really use discover itself to manage my packages, cause for some reason I prefer to do it with the cli tools, but it is a great update notifier.
Except it doesn't always work. I've seen it stuck and loading updates forever a few times, while a simple flatpak update command did the job with zero issues.
Well, are you in pro of flatpaks or against flatpaks?
Why compare what OP described to flatpaks, instead of the "killer features" you so miss?
Yeah that's why I don't use discover to do the actual updating. I just manually run my flatpak updates when discover tells me there are some.