I’ve been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:
Just install any app on any distro, isolated from the base system and with granular rights management. I’ve just set up my first flatpak-centric system and didn’t notice any issues with it at all, apart from a 1-second waiting time before an app is launched.

What’s your long-term experience?

Notice any annoying bugs or instabilities? Do apps crash a lot? Disappear from Flathub or are unmaintained? Do you often have issues with apps that don’t integrate well with your native system? Are important apps missing?

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    6·
    8 months ago

    Some apps are 200MB for the apt or a flatpak install 1.5GB! Also doesn’t help with disk space.

    Flatpak also installs dependencies, which are shared across Flatpak apps - So yea, the initial download sucks, but native apps actually do the same thing (you just already have the dependencies downloaded).

    Also for disk space - If your fs has compression by default, a lot of it gets saved

    Second I often have issues saving files

    File a bug report upstream on a per-app basis