I use Flatpak all the time. It works a lot better than native apps very often.
Also it’s a lot easier than fussing with PPAs or whatever. I’m on KDE Neon and wanted to run something through Wine. The Wine in the stock PPAs was an older version with a known bug that wouldn’t let me install the .NET Framework 4.8. I tried fetching the Wine PPA directly, but then I was getting issues about system packages not being compatible with newer versions of Wine.
The more I dug, the more issues popped up (typical Linux). So I gave up and decided to install Lutris and try it through there, since Lutris has a workaround for those Wine issues. The Lutris in the stock PPAs also was an old version with a known bug where it just… wouldn’t work. You’d click a button and nothing would happen because of an HTTP bug. Rather than fuss around with that, I gave up and installed the Lutris Flatpak.
30 seconds later, my program was installed and running. No nonsense in the command line, no fussing around with packages. Just open and go.
A majority of the programs I have are Flatpak now. I have Flatpak for Zoom to let me take work meetings from my Linux partition; I have Flatpak for Parsec to let me remote in to my work desktop from my Linux partition. Blender, Calibre, Chrome, Discord, Thunderbird, PrusaSlicer, Slack, Rider, VS Code… all Flatpak.
They all work great. I get prompt updates to stay on the bleeding edge. No more dependency hell. I now actively search for Flatpaks before I fall back to apt.
Flatpak makes sandboxing an app and controlling its permissions quite accessible and easy, I like that.
And it’s oftentimes a faster way to get recent versions on stable distros. I can install Inkscape 1.3 right now, the native package on Mint for example is still on 1.1.2
yes, i am on debian and i enjoy the stability of my base system while i get the latest versions of apps. win-win situation for me. i try to install everything with flatpak first then apt.
I don’t because every time I fall in a weird pitfall where like /tmp is different or samba shares can’t be accessed. Or the UI is blindingly white instead of dark like the rest of the system. Though, I can’t remember on which one I had problems (probably both), it was some time ago and just gave up on them.
@dmrzl@fugepe I like using flatpaks for software that has dependencies that would collide with the rest of my system. This lets me keep things pretty clean for the system packages.
Does anyone actually use flatpak or snap?
Yeah flatpak all the way. Package managers are for system stuff and CLI tools. Sandboxing for GUI apps makes sense on modern systems imo
I use Flatpak all the time. It works a lot better than native apps very often.
Also it’s a lot easier than fussing with PPAs or whatever. I’m on KDE Neon and wanted to run something through Wine. The Wine in the stock PPAs was an older version with a known bug that wouldn’t let me install the .NET Framework 4.8. I tried fetching the Wine PPA directly, but then I was getting issues about system packages not being compatible with newer versions of Wine.
The more I dug, the more issues popped up (typical Linux). So I gave up and decided to install Lutris and try it through there, since Lutris has a workaround for those Wine issues. The Lutris in the stock PPAs also was an old version with a known bug where it just… wouldn’t work. You’d click a button and nothing would happen because of an HTTP bug. Rather than fuss around with that, I gave up and installed the Lutris Flatpak.
30 seconds later, my program was installed and running. No nonsense in the command line, no fussing around with packages. Just open and go.
A majority of the programs I have are Flatpak now. I have Flatpak for Zoom to let me take work meetings from my Linux partition; I have Flatpak for Parsec to let me remote in to my work desktop from my Linux partition. Blender, Calibre, Chrome, Discord, Thunderbird, PrusaSlicer, Slack, Rider, VS Code… all Flatpak.
They all work great. I get prompt updates to stay on the bleeding edge. No more dependency hell. I now actively search for Flatpaks before I fall back to apt.
I use Flatpak and appimage because it’s convenient
Flatpaks are my way to go for a GUI app, just made a script to install apps directly from flathub
Yes, for every single one of my desktop applications. There’s definitely pain points and cons to them, but they’re generally better then host install.
Lol. That’s what I was thinking. I feel like this meme should be reversed…
Flatpak makes sandboxing an app and controlling its permissions quite accessible and easy, I like that.
And it’s oftentimes a faster way to get recent versions on stable distros. I can install Inkscape 1.3 right now, the native package on Mint for example is still on 1.1.2
I have like 40 flatpaks installed at this moment, pretty good experience so far
yes, i am on debian and i enjoy the stability of my base system while i get the latest versions of apps. win-win situation for me. i try to install everything with flatpak first then apt.
You’d be surprised.
Packages: 2952 (dpkg), 154 (flatpak)I don’t because every time I fall in a weird pitfall where like /tmp is different or samba shares can’t be accessed. Or the UI is blindingly white instead of dark like the rest of the system. Though, I can’t remember on which one I had problems (probably both), it was some time ago and just gave up on them.
Steam Deck
Fedora
yes, because I use fedora silverblue
I use flatpaks, there’s a lot of good packages on there
@dmrzl @fugepe I like using flatpaks for software that has dependencies that would collide with the rest of my system. This lets me keep things pretty clean for the system packages.
AUR or go home
No thanks. I can just use filesystem and network namespaces in a chroot to do that
You have to admit that these are approches not every users can apply/use.
Also, since you seemed to be more technically inclined, maybe you are interested in taking a look at: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/under-the-hood.html
Hope this is at least a little interesting.
I use flatpak because my apt dependencies are borked
I like appimage, grudgingly use snap, hate flatpak.