Finally, I'm removing Flatpak from my old machine

Goodbye, hungry to memory and oil wars multi-host server, welcome back, my simple PC.

Soundtrack

👻 ps

Mar 14 · 8 weeks ago · 👍 stack, norayr, dce, bsj38381, baran, Atomic-Germ · 🔥 1

9 Comments ↓

🦔 bsj38381 · Mar 15 at 02:33:

Thanks for sharing that song btw, it's pretty catchy

🚀 SavaRocks · Mar 15 at 05:09:

Nooooo ... why did you delete "docker for linux apps" :)) ?

🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 15 at 09:10:

Any attempt to app-store-ify Linux is a horrible idea right off the bat

🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 15 at 10:41:

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.

🏍️ 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.

💎 safiire · Mar 15 at 20:55:

I only use flatpak to install Bitwig

👻 ps [OP] · Mar 17 at 13:16:

What's next:

🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 19 at 04:02:

And those projects clearly need help.