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
    61·
    9 months 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·
      9 months 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·
        9 months ago

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