• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      8 days ago

      I wouldn’t even mind snap so much but the day I found out apt would automatically use snaps instead for some packages with no easy opt out was a step too far.

      Drop it, snaps are dead. All hail FlatPak.

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          lol what are you talking about? One of my daily drivers is Kinoite and it works great. What flatpaks are you having issues with? Frankly, you must be being hyperbolic, because tons of people use tons of flatpaks without issue.

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            I mean, it’s great that it works for you.

            But I’m not even kidding. Literally every single one.

            I’ve now completely purged all snap and fp apps from my system and live a less angry life

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              Again: name them. Describe the failures.

              I simply don’t believe that you have 100% incompatibility, and I say that because I use a decently broad selection across several devices without any serious issues. Sure, they’re not perfect, but they’re a damn sight better than snaps, and in my experience, decently reliable.

              Back your claims with data, or be prepared to have people like me call bullshit.

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                I’ve stopped using them for over a year now.

                Granted, most of the apps I used were snap based, but some of them were flatpack.

                Most of them were single-use “use this tool with flatpack” tools via github, so I really can’t remember what those were when they just didn’t work.

                The ones I looked into why it didn’t work were always some filesystem permission stuff. Configurable? Sure. Not something you should be needing to do on first launch if you want to just use the tool? Absolutely

                The biggest issue I remember I had was with Vorta, a GUI for borg. Which also just had massive filesystem issues (plus some settings saving issues, which I assume also is a FS issue). Having problems reading your filesystem is quite a problem when you want to use a tool that, well, needs to read your filesystem.

                I’m honestly not really interested in stacking a pile of tools up that just didn’t work for me.

                If you like flatpack, go ahead. More power to the people who do.

                It’s just not a tool that I had any luck with. And I don’t really see a point in trying again for the forseeable future