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
    462·
    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?

    • Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi
      172·
      10 months ago

      I’m using KDE and when I download a flatpak it automatically creates a .desktop file. I think gnome does this too if I’m not mistaken. I do have to restart or relogin for it to put the file there but that’s not that bad IMO.

      • Miss Brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        32·
        10 months ago

        I’m on Endeavour xfce and the .desktop files are just there immediately. I never even knew this wasn’t the case on other systems

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I don’t put anything on my desktop but if I put Firefox in my krunner (alt-f2) box the flatpak shows up right away after installation