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submitted 10 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

I dont use insecure tools to install software

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Where's that Chris Pratt meme? --

I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago

The picture is too big.

[-] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.

[-] XenBad@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

What's not to Ike? These systems' development has been long overdue.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
[-] teolan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I love flatpaks and flathub. They're amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.

I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.

[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Flatpak works most of the time. Nix works almost all the time (except when stuff happens like the download fails)

Flatpak is free to assume anything about your system which is sometimes not compatible with NixOS

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I click install, app launches and I don't need to deal with dependency hell for it. (I like them)

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