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  • that’s the beauty of distros, those that want traditional package structure can still use a distro that does.

    Even the current flatpak first distros like OSTree spins of Fedora (Silverblue, Kinoite et al) provide mutable containers for using any package format you like.


  • The flatpak size disadvantage is negligible in the age of terabytes

    the issue is overstated as most flatpaks use the flatpak platform runtimes and share their own libraries in a similar manner to the host, yes its separate libraries, but its not dozens of disparate copies like some detractors of flatpak seem to state




  • Sorry I didn’t see a notification for this.

    It’s a different work flow installing software. Flatpak first mentality, then install stuff in a Toolbox container, if that doesn’t work layer the rpm.

    Being able to rebase has been helpful, I’ve based forward to rawhide a few times to try new packages and then rebase back to stable.

    You lose things like being able to use packages out of copr, but used to only really use that to test new versions of KDE. However the devs created a branch for KDE testing anyway, so nothing lost.

    Happy to answer any specific questions you might have