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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I’ve had my first downside with flatpak.

VSCode’s flatpak version won’t let you use certain packages because they’re installed on the system and flatpak is a sandbox with no access. You need to enable some stuff but I’m far too lazy to troubleshoot that shit.

I got the Snap version so I’m ready for the hate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes. That’s quite a downside actually!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

In Gajim flatpak too, plugins only can be used if packaged for Flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use the ssh plug in to connect with local.