I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.
The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.
They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.
And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.
I don’t like Flatpaks, but I guess this is better than nothing.
I’m surprised China doesn’t have a lot. Are they not using Flathub, or perhaps Flatpaks?
If I remember correctly deepin which is the popular distro uses their own store of appimage files. That may have something to do with it
I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.
The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.
They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.
And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.
I’d expect them having their own state controlled version
They are probably having internet connection problems in China
Flathub is not blocked