in your opinion, what is the biggest downside of Flatpaks? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

needless sandobxing (by default flatpaks can access your filesystem but not mounted folders, how is that secure and not jist inconvenient?)
yet another application manager not even well integrated into operating systems (linux mint doesn't update flatpaks by default)
applications are usually not updated very often, not sure if that's a systemic problem or just laziness
application X that is 50MB stabdalone requires 2GB to install and takes 3GB of space because it requires the entirety of gnome libraries. Application Y also requires 3GB because they use KDE or another version of gnome

[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Application Z requires another 3GB because it needs Gnome runtime version X+1, not version X. Although I do believe Flatpak does some kind of reduplication so actual used space is somewhat less.

It's also less of a problem if you flatpak all the apps vs having just a handful. The more apps the better chance they're actually sharing runtimes.

Flatpak updates are handled very smoothly by KDE Discover, I always assumed Gnome Software did the same, so no additional package manager required.

Despite the few downsides Flatpak is still wonderful. As a Kubuntu user it's nice to say Farewell random PPAs whenever there's a need for an actual newish version of an application

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

On a space limited , non upgradeable device (128GB ssd, half of that considering a dual boot) I find it literally unusable. At least with PPAs and AppImage i save 90% of redundant space

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