What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub?
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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
It does share dependencies, but in a different way than a regular package manager. You share runtimes and base apps: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/dependencies.html
It still takes forever to update compared to more traditional package managers
I never notice any update times, as the default in Fedora is to auto-update (I think?). Everything is just always up to date.
Edit: coming from ten years of Arch, this has significantly reduced my time fixing things related to an update 😆
Yeah I disabled those because my Internet is shit. I'm also on fedora and when I update, the 3 flatpak apps that I have installed take as long as my entire system to update. But I get it doesn't make much of a difference if it just happens in the background