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.

  • lemmyngEnglish
    6•9 months ago

    The biggest downside is that it’s only for distributing applications with a graphical user interface. Command line utilities still need another method of distribution.

    • 0485OP
      1•9 months ago

      That’s a good point!

    • @[email protected]English
      -2•9 months ago

      I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.

      • jan teli
        4•9 months ago

        Clunky as in flatpak run io.neovim.nvim instead of just nvim

        • @Plopp
          1•9 months ago

          Can’t you alias that?

          • @[email protected]
            2•9 months ago

            I don’t need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

            1. You get a menu entry in gui
            2. You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin
      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui