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 年前

      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 年前

        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 年前

          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 年前

      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.