• relic4322@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    never tried flatpak, snaps were so bad as to never consider non-native installs or just use docker instances when I need to run something weird. so dunno.

    whats the use case for a flatpak exactly? maybe im not the target audience???

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      5 hours ago
      • Apps not available in distro repositories
      • Apps with dependency conflicts
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      7 hours ago

      Flatpaks mean you don’t have to compile everything from scratch and solve dependency conflicts if you want a newer version of a program than what’s available in your distro’s repo, of if it’s something that doesn’t have a native version at all.