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What has been your experience with Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:
Just install any app on any distro, isolated from the base system and with granular rights management. I've just set up my first flatpak-centric system and didn't notice any issues with it at all, apart from a 1-second waiting time before an app is launched.

What's your long-term experience?

Notice any annoying bugs or instabilities? Do apps crash a lot? Disappear from Flathub or are unmaintained? Do you often have issues with apps that don't integrate well with your native system? Are important apps missing?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i like using bottles & steam flatpaks on debian because they use newer mesa in their containers. so the best of both worlds with stable debian but more updated gaming drivers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the setup for me too. It's been fantastic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

slight correction: flatpak doesn't run apps in a container

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Since it supports OCI images, and uses some of the same sandboxing tech I'd say there is a blurred line here for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Similar reason, with flatpaks having codecs with them so no need for outside the distro codec repo. (Talking about openSUSE here but might be the same for Fedora)