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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.

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[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Clunky as in flatpak run io.neovim.nvim instead of just nvim

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I don't need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

  1. You get a menu entry in gui
  2. You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin
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