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Sovereign Tech Agency makes a big investment into Flatpak (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Flatpak is an excellent format

[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely my favorite

[–] Statick@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. I initially used AUR since native builds tend to work better but after that whole debacle with malware (thankfully I wasn't affected) I've removed all except a select few and just replaced everything I could with flatpaks. Takes a bit of tweaking for some apps but honestly worth it for peace of mind.

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like flatpak but it's horribly inefficient.. I downloaded the steam flatpak and it was 15gb installed!! I don't think there's anything better really but damn.

[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 weeks ago

The first couple flatpaks always hurt. They mellow out for me as I add more since most use the same runtimes, but I do agree.