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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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Arch-based distro here, a lot of shit from AUR and such and it autoupdates from my package manager/aur helper.
The 2 or 3 flatpaks I installed I have to manually update... But to be honest I'm fairly sure that there's some config or change I could make to
yaythat would make it update flatpaks too. And even if not... Well. I could do what the (as of now) top comment said and make a lil' script. Though running two commands is really not a huge sacrifice :PAlso back when I used Debian, apt had some hook in it that would update Flatpaks there too.
No Appimages for me though. Don't care for the entire format.
Anyhow to me the killer feature of Linux was never the package manager so much as it was how much liberty it gives me to customize everything. Flatpaks and such are just another aspect of that.