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It was me. Reinstalled three times a couple days ago because I’m an idiot.
But I’m an idiot who uses FOSS and I rather be dumb in a world of genius than a genius in a world of dumb.
'ate dependency hell
'ate outdated packages in distro repos
'ate snaps
luv flathub
simple as
I like how know one wants snap but everyone chose flatpak.
I like flatpaks
Now I’m just hoping AppImage will follow in Snap’s footsteps.
Appimage is better for cli apps. Different purposes. Neovim appimage is very useful
Appimage is broken in many ways. Use a container
I’ve never had problems with appimage, and for me, containers are for my servers. I don’t want stateless, sandboxed applications for my workstations.
In what ways is it broken?
Containers don’t need to be stateless. I use Distrobox to create environments that I run my software in. Podman is the best for Distrobox but it can use the docker backend as well.
appimage aren’t bad
WDYM? I thought canonical was kinda standing their ground with snaps.
I am really glad Flatpak exists, it made using Linux much easier for me ^^
I know there’s abit of a war going on about the technical merits of flatpaks which I don’t know enough about the Unix world to fully understand.
As a newer user flatpaks have been pretty great, I like having the Android like permissions system through flatseal especially for my proprietary apps like Discord.
I dunno if I’d go all in on using only flatpaks but for what it is, consider me a fan.
I’m an average Flathub enjoyer, there because Canonical try to force me to use o’Snap.
The issue with those numbers is that they don’t account for people having multiple devices. My PC, Laptop, and Steam Deck all download apps from flathub, so I’m likely counted multiple times. On the other hand most people only use one device, so the actual numbers probably don’t doffer much. It’s an estimate anyway.
Edit: I’m not surprised the amount of people using flatpak/flathub increased so much. It’s my preferred method of installing proprietary software and works on any distro, even unconventional ones like NixOS or Alpine. Sandboxing continues to get better, be it isolation or usability.
As a noob, can someone briefly explain flatpaks and why they may be preferred?
Glad you asked
- containerized apps
- more secure than regular install
- less clutter
- no dependency hell
- open source (in opposition to snap)
Containerization is not mandatory, some flatpaks are not air-gapped at all which is a real bummer. I wish they all were.
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Are you referring to the ones with excessive sandbox permissions that flathub allows by default? Or is this something else?
For some apps this is just annoying. Like on Cryptomator
Can they not be closed down with flatseal?
Thanks for mentioning this. I didnt know.
It is also much easier to install and update, since it don’t require restarting the computer, and also works on all distro.
Exactly. Thanks for pointing it out.
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That was my guess, from others’ context. Hits almost all of the good points.
How containerized though? Could it be a replacement for a docker server “farm” on a single machine or is it know for apps to simply use locally?
Good question. Docker can be used for orchestration which I‘m pretty sure is a lot more than flatpak is designed for. So if this interests you (I‘m fine with docker) feel free to try it out and update me.
I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.
I love flatpaks
Lets gooooo 🔥
Glad to see growth on flathub 💪
I like flatpaks but bundling everything as flatpak is a overkill.
Why does it only have git sign in? What If I don’t want to use those shitty git services?
You mean GitHub signin?
Because Flathub operates on GitHub. If you hate it that much, you could use a different Flatpak distributor (I heard Fedora has its own?)
