Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

  • sugartits@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think bringing in an entire operating system, which may well include libraries and other files that I already have installed, to run something small can be considered bloat.

    I currently have multiple versions of Nvidia’s libraries installed for some reason on my system through flatpak. I have no idea why that’s necessary but if I don’t allow this to happen I get dropped down to software rendering.