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Is there a downside to Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Snaps are very much controlled by a central source. With flatpak you can add custom repos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah that was what I said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.