Basically title.
I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.
Basically title.
I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.
The upside over Snaps is that they’re not so controlled by a central source
I’d say they still share a couple downsides: a) use a lot of them and stuff is gonna get bloaty vs native packages
b) updating a library etc for security on your system can still leave you with vulnerable apps where the packages aren’t updated
Snaps are very much controlled by a central source. With flatpak you can add custom repos
Yeah that was what I said.
Generally using only a few flatpaks is where it’s generally “bloaty”. Adding more actually balances out the equation ans you have more apps using generally shared runtimes.