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Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

recently rebased from fedora to debian, and reinstalling apps through flathub was ridiculously easy because all the settings and data were preserved in /home. also flatpaks incorporate newer mesa than what comes with debian stable, so it's an easy way to stick with a stable distro but also be up-to-date in userspace.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like them for convenience, I don't like them for customability, possibly just because I don't know enough about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is a good point I have not encountered too often. I don't tend to customize the programs I use. I tend to just learn the defaults for that program.

Anyways, people keep recommending FlatSeal, which is a graphical way to customize Flatpak permissions, so that may be helpful to you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My experience with Flatpaks has been so stable and hassle-free that it motivated me to switch to Fedora Silverblue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hell yes! Feeling futuristic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I first used it it felt like they were usually out of date or missing. But nowadays It seems like I can find like 90% of the apps I use as flatpaks, leaving packages mainly for backend and terminal stuff.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

almost all my apps are flatpaks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! May I ask what is your base system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opensuse TW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I ever get bored of Mint I am jumping back on there. OpenSuse is as perfect a linux distro I have ever used, excepting my graphic driver woes.

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