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Flatpak is not perfect, but it's getting better (thelibre.news)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Flatpak is quite fucking far from perfect, and will always remain so due to its flawed design and UX approach.

Pretty sure the culprit here is Fedora’s packaging which adds an opaque systemd timer to run auto-updates, but the thread immediately next to this one on my homepage just happened to be a nice case-study in Flatpak fuckery: https://lemmy.world/post/30654407

Of course, the proposed changes in the article do nothing to fix this sorta problem, which happens to be the variety that end users actually care about. Flatpak is an epic noob trap since it pretends to be a plug-n-play beginner friendly tool, but causes all sorts of subtle headaches that newcomers inevitably don’t have diagnostic experience to address.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Flatpak doesn't have a UI? It is a packaging format.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Flatpak: a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.

Flatpak application: an application installed via the flatpak command or through a graphical interface, such as GNOME Software or KDE Discover.

Runtime: also called platform, an integrated environment providing basic utilities needed for a Flatpak application to work.

Flatpak bundle: a single-file export format containing a Flatpak application or runtime.

From https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html#terminology

You might be thinking of AppImages, which are more of a pure file format.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Are you talking about theming?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I’m talking about the executable binary flatpak, which is the interface used to execute and manage applications distributed in the Flatpak bundle format.

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak

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