I dont use insecure tools to install software
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Where's that Chris Pratt meme? --
I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask
Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once
- make apps that work on every distro
- thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
- sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
- use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
- make everything nice and user friendly
They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.
I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.
I love flatpaks and flathub. They're amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.
I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.
What's not to Ike? These systems' development has been long overdue.
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Flatpak works most of the time. Nix works almost all the time (except when stuff happens like the download fails)
Flatpak is free to assume anything about your system which is sometimes not compatible with NixOS