I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

      • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        I am glad that the startup times have improved, that bodes well for future startup times. Using up more storage really is what makes it suck for everyone. I thought that it was more efficient, since I see a lot of .platform, and I assumed those are libraries shared across flatpak apps that use those dependencies.

        I am almost sure AppImage has the same problem? I don’t know, people do rated that better though.

          • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            That is what I thought, and I was confused about people complaining about the redundancy. Also, every new program I install manually seems to pull a crap-tonne of new dependencies, so nobody is saving space.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      There might be an increase in startup time and RAM usage because it loads it’s own dependencies instead of using system libraries, but the difference is probably very little.

      • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        I imagine that is the case. I also feel that is a trifle. Unless one is constantly closing and opening an application they use often, the extra seconds starting should not break a workflow.

        • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          I think it’s probably a couple ms instead of whole seconds but I haven’t tested it.

          • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
            2·
            3 年前

            Sure. I personally have not noticed a difference. Then again, I recently got a new computer, and all my other computers are over a decade old, so everything feels luxurious.