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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I prefer rpm over flatpak. at least I know any os dependency updates are happening regularly, flatpak may not get weekly dependency updates from proton

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its kinda annoying for anyone not on debian or fedora (and derivatives) though.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm on OpenSuse which will take a Fedora RPM, and most will take deb, if they don't you can uae the alien tool to convert it for your OS...extra steps which sucks

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OpenSUSE does not have Fedoras ABI or package names. The RPMs aren’t compatible.

This one might work as its just Electron.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I installed it and it works. i have also installed other Fedora RPMs. RPM can contain repo links to dependecies needed. or just contain all the libraries needed. OpenSUSE will install it and just treat them as Orphaned Packages (in the later case)

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Extra steps for thee, not for me!"