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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No downside, only flatpak
The upside over Snaps is that they're not so controlled by a central source
I'd say they still share a couple downsides: a) use a lot of them and stuff is gonna get bloaty vs native packages
b) updating a library etc for security on your system can still leave you with vulnerable apps where the packages aren't updated
Snaps are very much controlled by a central source. With flatpak you can add custom repos
Yeah that was what I said.
Generally using only a few flatpaks is where it's generally "bloaty". Adding more actually balances out the equation ans you have more apps using generally shared runtimes.