Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
Re: "Finally, I'm removing Flatpak from my old machine"
If distribution maintainers were overstaffed with super-humans, there would be no need at all for Snap, FlatPak, AppImage, and the rest.
Unfortunately, they're not. There's a reason why these things have become so popular lately.
Mar 15 · 8 weeks ago
5 Later Comments ↓
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 15 at 11:06:
I've never seen a situation where flatpack is the best option. Most things are easy to build yourself if they aren't in the official repositories. If you want an App Store, Linux is antithetical to your use case
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 15 at 11:31:
@Atomic-Germ : Have you built KiCAD from source? Or FreeCAD? These things have hugely complex dependencies and sub-dependencies, often on very particular versions. You might find that installing the dependencies is difficult or, sometimes, impossible because they clash with existing versions of the same thing. Perl and Python dependencies are particularly nasty.
Distro maintainers don't usually build monsters like FIrefox -- they relay on the binary builds provided by the application maintainers. But these usually provide their own copies of many system components, because the maintainers can't rely on compatible versions being present.
Most Linux applications are relatively straightforward to build from source, but not all.
I only use flatpak to install Bitwig
What's next:
- [ ] P2P autopilot apps (pseudo decentralized solutions such as blockchain-based toys)
- [ ] let's decrypt or drop the rolls (TLS over TLS over TLS...)
- [ ] disconnect the network
- [ ] drop PC out the window if not PC yet
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 19 at 04:02:
And those projects clearly need help.
Original Post
Finally, I'm removing Flatpak from my old machine — Goodbye, hungry to memory and oil wars multi-host server, welcome back, my simple PC. [bash]