So a few popular Linux distros decided to drop a few major packages like how red hat dropped rpm packages for libreoffice in favor for the flatpak packages.

If more distros decided to drop more packages from their main repository in favor for flatpak packages, then are there any obvious concerns? From my personal experience, flatpaks didn’t work well for me. If flatpaks become mainstream and takeover the linux distros, then I might just move to Freebsd. I just want to know if there is any positives to moving away from official repositories to universal repositories.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    I’m relatively newish to Linux and have come to notice that system packages run better for me than Flatpaks a lot of the time.

    • tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      System packages only install packages that is missing. Flatpak brings with it everything. Something similar to Docker containers for applications.