They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.
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I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.
I love flatpaks and flathub. They're amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.
I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.
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Flatpak works most of the time. Nix works almost all the time (except when stuff happens like the download fails)
Flatpak is free to assume anything about your system which is sometimes not compatible with NixOS
It's pretty good for desktop apps, but it doesn't provide CLI applications, so I still have to rely on the AUR. There are some issues with it, but overall I think it's the best solution we currently have. And it's very easy to use, which is great for new users and it will become important if Linux continues growing like this.
The picture is too big.
I click install, app launches and I don't need to deal with dependency hell for it. (I like them)
Where's that Chris Pratt meme? --
I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask
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