GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks
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My case is the other way around. I look for software in the store, and if I can't find it, then I install from the terminal, but I always update (and remove) from terminal.
I'm a diehard Gnome user, but this will certainly make me move to something else. -
I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.
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Oh that makes sense.
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I really don't like how gnome is doing things, even I not using a distro that uses rpm im considering migrate to cosmic
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Yup. AUR forever FTW.
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Too much storage. Only apps, no dependencies or drivers, which makes them 100% useless to me. So I'm Still relying on the repos to install dependencies and drivers, but splitting my workflow and installing flatpak apps? No, thanks. Too much hassle on theming and system access. Often times on the steam deck I try to do something and it doesn't work and I start scrambling for a while to fix it, then realize I don't have permissions to do so then have to go find flatseal and start fucking with shit. Just too much hassle.
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Ugh I can't wait for PopOs to move to Cosmic
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The space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won't be duplicated.
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Dependencies are contained in the flatpak. That's why something like zenmap. Which requires python 2. Can run on a system that doesn't have python 2 installes
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That's it. You've solved it. Flatpaks are the best. Give me one driver I can install as a Flatpak. Anything that is non-app that is flatpak
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But why?
Probably because having two separate dependency management solutions can lead to a lot of needless headaches.
And it makes particular sense for Gnome to switch over, since Gnome is focused on user space apps. Flatpaks should generally be more relevant and lower risk, long term, since they don't require root privileges to install.
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In this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well.. it doesn't works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms... if 512, it will be different..
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While I prefer Debian packages, what's wrong with Flatpaks other than a bit of bloat caused by redundant dependencies? They're not Snaps.
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More like poop os haha get it
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They acutally use deduplication. So if there is a package needed in e.g. 10 different flatpaks it will not take 10x the space on the drive.
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haterz gonna hate...
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I let the intrusive thoughts win
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Really? Nice. Didn't know that about Flatpaks.
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It was mentioned in a podcast from the linux cast - there was actually a guy (I believe he works for gnome) and he cleaned up with some prejudices about flatpaks. One of them being that they consume too much space on disk
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This. Arch based distros have understood this a long time ago, most ship with no GUI for their package managers and if they ship with one they throw you to a terminal to solve anything, as it should be.
I don't want to deal with any of that, so I run Bazzite, do flatpaks only, and use Distrobox for whatever I can't find on the homebrew package manager.
