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How do you feel about Flatpak? Do you like having universal packages separated from the operating system, or do you regret how much space they take? (piefed.zip)

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I was reading a bit about it recently, seems like there two positions are valid, curious to see what people here think.

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[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guix is extremely good but I’m not sure if it’s ready for general users yet in the way flatpak is.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a package manager I don't see why not? guix install foo and if it doesn't work you can still flatpak it. As a distro, yeah largely agree, although I'm no power-user and know embarassingly little about guix but use it as a daily driver.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah for you and me, sure. But I don’t think any command line package managers are good for Joe Public either. My mum isn’t installing software from a command line, but she’s fine to download Netflix onto her phone from an app store. Flatpak integrates nicely into a lot of os software centres in a way I’ve not seen from Guix (though I could be wrong, I’ve not looked much).