• @TxTechnician@lemmy.ml
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    1310 months ago

    Really? Why not?

    I find them incredibly useful for some applications.

    For some development stuff, though, I still prefer to use the installed version.

    So VS Code, for example, I have that installed.

    The flat pack just does not work as well.

    But Podman Desktop, which is a flat pack, is just excellent.

    • @embed_me@programming.dev
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      510 months ago

      I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.

      • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
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        610 months ago

        The space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won’t be duplicated.

      • @bluee@lemm.ee
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        010 months ago

        In this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well… it doesn’t works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms… if 512, it will be different…