merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agowhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI know storage doesn’t matter these days, but another different thing is suggesting flatpak “because it keeps bloat down”.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoStorage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoI do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around. You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious). Flatpak hardcoded ~/.var which I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651
I know storage doesn’t matter these days, but another different thing is suggesting flatpak “because it keeps bloat down”.
Storage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
I do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around.
You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious).
Flatpak hardcoded
~/.varwhich I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me:https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651