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Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100%. I just wrote a long post surmising this somewhere, but I'm switching my 5 year old Arch install to something like Debian Stable/Testing because I use almost entirely Flatpaks for my user applications (I would do 100% of them if every app I used had a Flatpak), and it's really just a much better idea to run bleeding edge on only the stuff you care about instead of an entire system.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you find it please link it. I would love to read it. I think I am happy with my setup, and Flatpaks make it possible.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here. It's more of a longform stream of thought on why I'm doing the same sort of thing.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

For sure. I think I rolling distros are great, and I may consider it in the future. Right now Linux Mint is amazingly solid for me, and has evaporated any interest for experimentation, because I have had literally 0 problems, and it magically takes care of my Nvidia card.

I hope you find the distro you are looking for!

[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I personally run Debian in Testing and I have not the latest version but I think it's still fine.