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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but why? It makes software installation easy. You constantly angry nerds are a huge part of the reason Linux doesn't have more popularity. There's literally nothing wrong with flatpaks for the average user

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, there is:

  1. Security updates can't be provided by the distro for all apps at once

  2. Waste of storage space, network traffic, and RAM