merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · il y a 6 moiswhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squarewhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · il y a 6 moismessage-square73fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·il y a 6 moisI’ll have to look but I have 6-7 VMs so 4.2Gb is child’s play. My SSD is 256Gb so I have plenty of room
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·il y a 6 moisI know storage doesn’t matter these days, but another different thing is suggesting flatpak “because it keeps bloat down”.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·il y a 6 moisStorage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-2il y a 6 moisI do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around. You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious). Flatpak hardcoded ~/.var which I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651
I’ll have to look but I have 6-7 VMs so 4.2Gb is child’s play. My SSD is 256Gb so I have plenty of room
I know storage doesn’t matter these days, but another different thing is suggesting flatpak “because it keeps bloat down”.
Storage isn’t everything. Having separate isolated storage locations keeps the cluster down and prevents conflicts. Plus if I need to change something it is easy to find.
I do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around.
You can’t get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I’m serious).
Flatpak hardcoded
~/.varwhich I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me:https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651