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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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[–] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Problem I have with Flatpak is their way of naming packages which makes them very akward to run in a WM. That's basically the only reason why I haven't used Flatpak since I switched to WMs, pacman and AUR also work really well so there isn't even a reason to use something else.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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