/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

>>30377 (OP)
they're bloated and are meant to be universal which causes a bunch of issues

It's a problem looking for a solution. It results in an app that takes up much more space while being redundant to what your system package manager offers. If the only way of getting something is flatpak (as often is the case with some shit now where its either that or compile it yourself) I'll use them, but even then I'd rather just get an appimage, stick it in some directory and be done with it

i don't know why they don't just package their apps in a zip file with all the libraries. what the fuck are flatpack and snap even for?

>>30383
It's useful on Debian because you can have the newest software on a stable base if you need it
>>30384
That's what AppImages do

>>30384
Flatpaks are middle ground between everything in system shared and everything contained. If you check what flatpak has installed it has installed shared runtimes with the app.

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>>30409
appimages dont piss me off as much but i'd still rather have everything in a directory. at least you can extract appimages easily

>>30445
op here im deadass asking a srs question. learned a lot from this thread

>>30502
>>30377 (OP)
its mostly snca but the main points are that 1. flatpak programs consume more space than deb/aur/rpm programs and 2. finding their location can be a pain in the ass

>>30503
>finding their location can be a pain in the ass
cd ~/.var/app/

did it for you