Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Basically title.
I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.
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1- It takes a lot of space. jUsT bUy a bIgGeR dRiVe --stfu I'm not going to spend money for you to waste it
1- a) Everyone assumes you're an American with 20Gbps symmetrical fiber optic. My internet can't handle 2+ Gb downloads for a fucking 50 Mb app bro
2- Duplicate graphics drivers. Particularly painful with Nvidia
3- It puts a lot of security work with distro library trees straight into the shitter
4- Horrendously designed system for CLI apps
(flatpak run org.whocares.shit.app)
5- Filesystem isolation has many upsides for security but also it can cause some pain (definitely nitpicking)
Where in America is there 20Gbps symmetrical fiber? Everywhere I know tops out at 1gbps if you are lucky that your ISP isn't shit, and lots of areas are still on slow cable.
In my area my options are 200mbps cable or 100mbps ADSL (which inexplicably costs more than the cable Internet)
Maybe is an hyperbole I have optic fiber straight to my door here and is 10gbps tops but usually it works around 80% of that with some conditions. And it's not symmetrical I don't recall the up speed tho.
Best I've ever had was like 60mbps down. Might be a budget thing though, I refuse to pay more than £30/month for internet
Lived in 8 different states in the US - never had anything above 1 Gbps. Typically been 300-500 mbps, with only the past and current state state where I’ve gotten 1gbps. Poster is just assuming because we’re a first world country that we have good internet. We don’t. I hear Europe has better speeds than us.
It's about what you pay for. live in a place that doesn't invest in utilities and infrastructure, don't be surprised that you don't have the latest greatest.
My city in Canada paid to ensure everyone has fibre to the door. we had it rolled out a few years ago.
We have cable options up to 2gbps, and fibre up to 5gbps currently. Enterprise / corporate fibre is also available at easily 50-100gbps. (I have 2 x 20gbps for my Datacentres)
Problem with most US cities is you got big corporations like Cox, Comcast, Spectrum, etc that lock them down in contracts. Basically they offer to lay down the wiring and say “oh by the way, nobody else is allowed to use this besides us”. Used to live in Phx AZ with Cox being the “best” in town, with only Century Link as an alternative. Google Fiber was trying to get in but was locked out due to Cox’s titan grip on the city. So yay unchecked monopolies…
All of this. Plus often it just doesn't work.
And no. I do not want to blind fiddle with the permissions to fix it.