• TxTechnician@lemmy.ml
    14·
    24 days ago

    Really? Why not?

    I find them incredibly useful for some applications.

    For some development stuff, though, I still prefer to use the installed version.

    So VS Code, for example, I have that installed.

    The flat pack just does not work as well.

    But Podman Desktop, which is a flat pack, is just excellent.

    • embed_me@programming.dev
      61·
      23 days ago

      I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.

      • verdigris@lemmy.ml
        81·
        23 days ago

        The space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won’t be duplicated.

      • bluee@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        23 days ago

        In this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well… it doesn’t works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms… if 512, it will be different…

      • TxTechnician@lemmy.ml
        7·
        23 days ago

        Dependencies are contained in the flatpak. That’s why something like zenmap. Which requires python 2. Can run on a system that doesn’t have python 2 installes