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Comment by MindSpunk

I have almost never had a good experience with Flatpaks as a user, outside of ease of installation. They almost never integrate with the system properly. Wrong theme, wrong cursors, wrong file picker, permission issues, drag-and-drop issues. You often need extra tools that broaden the permissions of apps post-install because some feature won't work (global push-to-talk in Discord is always fun, especially with Wayland).

I couldn't care less about sandboxing if the UX sucks as a result.

If binary portability wasn't such a complete joke on Linux we wouldn't need Flatpak, but here we are.

parent MindSpunk 1 year ago

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