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Why I dislike snaps
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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Why I hate snaps/flatpak:
Don't know about Snap, but Flatpak download sizes decrease significantly after installing the main platform libraries, they can become really small; of course that's pretty much fully negated if you're installing Electron apps, but even then 500MB isn't very accurate, more like 150MB on average
Yes I hate it, what is even more annoying is that you can do
flatpak install someappand it will search matches on its own, it shows them to you to let you decide, but after that you can't doflatpak run someappbecause it "doesn't exist"There's a nice program called flattool that solves the name issue
Is it this one?
It looks excellent, ~~any idea why it's not on Flathub yet?~~ Never mind, I got it: