All that a flatpak is is a distro-agnostic release of a package. They contain all the binaries and libraries to run on any distro. They’re also sandboxed from the rest of your OS unless you give them permission to interact with it. Being that they contain everything for all of Linux means slightly larger file size, but that’s not so much of a problem as it was in the old days.
I install flatpaks via terminal, same as I do for official repos stuff and the AUR. I was never a fan of GUIs for really anything on Linux other than my file browser, but especially not for updating or installing packages. There’s too many prompts and dependencies.
But, probably more importantly, my OS partition gets pretty tight sometimes, and I want to reduce duplicated libs where possible. I could probably do something about that (like put Flatpak on a separate drive), but I guess I also have a bad experience with docket taking tens or even hundreds of gigabytes and tons of RAM for simple projects.
EDIT: …I didn’t meant to go on an anti flatpak rant. I’ve used it on other systems. TBH I might try it soon, but most everything I need is usually in my distro repo.
All that a flatpak is is a distro-agnostic release of a package. They contain all the binaries and libraries to run on any distro. They’re also sandboxed from the rest of your OS unless you give them permission to interact with it. Being that they contain everything for all of Linux means slightly larger file size, but that’s not so much of a problem as it was in the old days.
I install flatpaks via terminal, same as I do for official repos stuff and the AUR. I was never a fan of GUIs for really anything on Linux other than my file browser, but especially not for updating or installing packages. There’s too many prompts and dependencies.
The separate libs is indeed my concern.
I like using my optimized system packages.
But, probably more importantly, my OS partition gets pretty tight sometimes, and I want to reduce duplicated libs where possible. I could probably do something about that (like put Flatpak on a separate drive), but I guess I also have a bad experience with docket taking tens or even hundreds of gigabytes and tons of RAM for simple projects.
EDIT: …I didn’t meant to go on an anti flatpak rant. I’ve used it on other systems. TBH I might try it soon, but most everything I need is usually in my distro repo.