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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you really hate flatpak just make an arch distrobox and download off the AUR. Or install Nix or something

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I do sort of wish Nix was a more popular distro agnostic solution

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's what I've done with my deck. Some things just aren't available through discover, and the Firefox build on there has behavior that I don't like or know how to correct. Distrobox gives me access to the Arch repos + AUR with persistence that you can't get on SteamOS without it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

SteamOS is an arch derivative, so you could also just install arch, add the SteamOS repos, and set the steam UI in gamescope to launch on login

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Or just use Arch... only for half of your AUR packages to be broken and end up still using flatpaks anyways.

[–] gentooer 1 points 4 months ago

Install Gentoo and put the package on GURU, it's really easy (and .ebuild > PKGBUILD)