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.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      6·
      1 year ago

      Flatpak is a distro on its own, but with original dev support. Its like a Linux Distro replacing others.

      So it adds complexity but with the potential to remove it from the OS. For example Libreoffice, Browsers, Thunderbird etc are huge and its a good approach to use official versions here.

      • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
        5·
        1 year ago

        Then what’s the point in having different distros lol we don’t have duplication for the sake of duplication there are reasons why there are different distros, philosophies and packaging method. I see this mistake from many usually newer Linux users, there are different distros because there is a point in packaging the OS differently.

        Flatpak for example completely abandons makig apps use patched system libraries. Or having different packages for different init systems. Or , god forbid, supporting BSDs

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          I dont know tbh. Flatpak is a bit like Android apps I think, but those apps only have a single OS to support.

    • YamiYuki@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Some developers don’t want to deal with building an app for multiple versions. Sure some DEBs can work without needing to deal with that, but some don’t.