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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

yo finally someone who loves native packages more then flatpack.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 days ago

I kinda agree because you need to allow permissions, it's more secure it's just annoying.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Flatpak has its benefits, but there are tradeoffs as well. I think it makes a lot of sense for proprietary software.

For everything else I do prefer native packages since they have fewer issues with interop. The space efficiency isn't even that important to me; even if space issues should arise, those are relatively easy to work around. But if your password manager can't talk to your browser because the security model has no solution for safe arbitrary IPC, you're SOL.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure flatpack is implementing native messaging, Which is what is used by the password manager:
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, so they actually got that implemented. Nice.