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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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On Arch Linux I've migrated away from Flatpaks, so I only use AUR and official repos.
Oh boy my updates speed increased like 3 to 5 times. Flatpak is slow as fuck.
Also my ISP is slow as fuck.
Guess what, Flatpaks have delta updates (a criminally underrated feature) so all things equal, updates are technically faster than pacman.
I practically observed it. To me flatpaks were horribly slow due to my download speed. I don't know what sort of magic packages it was downloading, but I was waiting way longer than simply using pacman/AUR packages. 🤷
Arch has more mirrors for sure. But my point was on delta updates which technically make updating flatpaks faster and less bandwidth consuming, runtimes aside.