Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Basically title.
I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.
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The biggest downside is that it's only for distributing applications with a graphical user interface. Command line utilities still need another method of distribution.
I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.
Clunky as in
flatpak run io.neovim.nviminstead of justnvimCan't you alias that?
I don't need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:
- You get a menu entry in gui
- You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin
Yep. But,
sudo tee /usr/local/bin/nvim <
There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui
That’s a good point!