Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    For me it’s lacking in user friendliness. Go easy on the downvotes if I’m doing it the hard way.

    • Flatpaks aren’t really single-executables. You have to use to the flatpak command to run them.
    • I can’t just say flatpak run firefox, I have to use the full app-id which could be quite long.

    Yes, I could make this simpler with scripts or aliases but how hard would it have been for Flatpak to automatically do this for me?