I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And how do y’all cope with waiting for all the AUR installed packages to rebuild after every update? Alacritty takes ages to build for me. Which is why I only update the AUR installed and built applications every 2 weeks.

  • UnfortunateShort
    6•7 months ago

    I prefer Flatpaks, not only because I support the format, but also because of containerization and the ability to clean up an application completely.

    I absolutely hate it when apps randomly place config files everywhere.

    • Chemical WonkaEnglish
      0•7 months ago

      don’t forget that the “containerization” is weak and not reliable.