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.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Flatpak is a distro on its own, but with original dev support. Its like a Linux Distro replacing others.

      So it adds complexity but with the potential to remove it from the OS. For example Libreoffice, Browsers, Thunderbird etc are huge and its a good approach to use official versions here.

    • YamiYuki@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Some developers don’t want to deal with building an app for multiple versions. Sure some DEBs can work without needing to deal with that, but some don’t.