Is Flatpaks the future for Linux? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by Ziggyred@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So a few popular Linux distros decided to drop a few major packages like how red hat dropped rpm packages for libreoffice in favor for the flatpak packages.

If more distros decided to drop more packages from their main repository in favor for flatpak packages, then are there any obvious concerns? From my personal experience, flatpaks didn't work well for me. If flatpaks become mainstream and takeover the linux distros, then I might just move to Freebsd. I just want to know if there is any positives to moving away from official repositories to universal repositories.

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[-] DrManhattan@lemmy.design 15 points 1 year ago

Considering the Steam Deck accounts for a huge portion of Linux installs, I think flatpaks are going to be here to start and only grow in popularity.

I have to ask though, why do people dislike flatpaks?

[-] myxi@feddit.nl -2 points 1 year ago

Flatpaks are slow and take more resources. It is only useful for the riches who can afford 16 GB+ RAM and TBs of storage.

[-] BennyHill@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ram and storage are both dirt cheap, I'd consider any new laptop/pc with only 8gb non upgradable RAM ewaste these days. 2tb NVMe drives have dropped below 100€ already and 1tb below 50€

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