Post #1945843 · Elektrine

2026-02-04 13:41 UTC

@Papaexmatrikulatus @aerion I personally avoid flatpaks (snaps not as much) because of limited system access and therefore usability. The two main things I noticed: - Missing subpixel anti-aliasing led to worse readability of text in e.g. LibreWolf - Filesystem access: LibreWolf file downloads failed, KiCad could only open the files when directly opened from the file manager, FreeCAD could not save any files at all (fixed in newer versions though) Can I fix some of those issues with permission management? Maybe, but I tried for a few minutes and then realised one should just install the native version from whatever package manager one uses

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@aerion@nerdculture.de 2026-02-04 14:02

@bas_spr@digitalcourage.social Exactly, more fiddling required to achieve (partial) parity with native versions. It should make things easier, not harder. Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage (and Electron) primarily benefit developers, while offering little benefit to users. Furthermore, it scatters packages over multiple installation sources, instead of just one: the native package manager.. And finally, yet again we have multiple, incompatible, approaches trying to solve the same problem. Until there is a single, unified method for package distribution, that addresses all the shortcomings of the current ones, I'm steering clear of all of them. @Papaexmatrikulatus@mastodon.social

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@Papaexmatrikulatus@mastodon.social 2026-02-04 14:06

@aerion@nerdculture.de @bas_spr@digitalcourage.social Well, that's why you don't install everything as a flatpak, but many apps don't need a good system integration. In these cases, Flatpak is nice for it's easy permission management which is not as much limited by skill like for example Apparmor.

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