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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 8 months ago

I dont use insecure tools to install software

[-] clemdemort@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's the easiest solution to packaging software for Linux that doesn't mean it's good, In fact fhe way no dependencies are shared absolutely wrecks my hard drive and makes everything super long (downloading, updating, etc...).

Where it shines is security but to be honest do you really need an open source app to be in it's own secure sandbox?

I vastly prefer nix and I wish packaging stuff for it was easier.

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[-] XenBad@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.

[-] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 8 months ago

I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

What's not to Ike? These systems' development has been long overdue.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] teolan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I love flatpaks and flathub. They're amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.

I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.

[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's pretty good for desktop apps, but it doesn't provide CLI applications, so I still have to rely on the AUR. There are some issues with it, but overall I think it's the best solution we currently have. And it's very easy to use, which is great for new users and it will become important if Linux continues growing like this.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I personally think it is trash..

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

The picture is too big.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Where's that Chris Pratt meme? --

I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once

  • make apps that work on every distro
  • thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
  • sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
  • use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
  • make everything nice and user friendly
[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
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