merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agowhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squarewhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square73fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoStorage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoI do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around. You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious). Flatpak hardcoded ~/.var which I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651
Storage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
I do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around.
You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious).
Flatpak hardcoded
~/.varwhich I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me:https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651