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Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by shrewdcat@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] grimaferve@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly? I'm a fan of Flatpaks where they make sense. I'm also okay with Appimages. Native is pretty cool. Whatever gets the thing to run really.

I like to use the terminal to update my applications, it's just faster. I have an alias to run an update for native packages and flatpaks. You can use your GUI of choice. Or not, it's up to you. It's that sort of freedom that I love about using Linux.

In some cases, Flatpak actually helps, as in my case, with Prism Launcher. Some of my system libraries cause issues with a handful of mods, but the libraries distributed with the Flatpak get that working. Hopefully that's not foreshadowing more future library-related issues.

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That reminds me, is Flatpak packaging CLI tools already?

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 3 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like it does? Or at least could?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/740712/does-flatpak-support-command-line-applications

I've never seen one so far though

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've packaged a CLI that I made as a flatpak. It works just fine. Nothing weird was required to make it work.

The only thing is that if you want to use a CLI flatpak, you probably want to set an alias in your shell to make running it easier.

I'm not sure why more CLIs aren't offered as flatpaks. Maybe because static linking them is so easy? I know people focus on flatpak sandboxing as a primary benefit, but I can't help but think of static linking was easier for bigger applications, it wouldn't be needed as much.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

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[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

theyre whatever, they have their place in my system, but inprefer installing debs from the repo

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Furniture? Integrated circuit packaging?

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I'm agnostic on flatpaks - I've used a couple and they're ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you're really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn't, I can see it being an issue.

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is that supposed to be Ed Norton, or just an uncanny coincidence?

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