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[–] 28 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Sorry, but you're plain wrong on your first issue. Getting all your packages from one source is one of the biggest upsides of Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Indeed, but I'm sure we can agree that it's pretty stupid for every distro to maintain its own repo. That's a lot of duplicate work, which could be spend on more useful things. Luckily flatpak is well on its way to change that

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hm... But different distros have different philosophies (not just) about updates. That's part of why people choose a specific distro.

    Theres still plenty speaking against flatpak (larger sizes, problems with GTK/qt themes, and it's only meant for GUI applications - you still need a separate system for the kernel and lower-level/cli tools. And frankly, that makes flatpak unusable to me, because the purpose of a centralized package management system is not having duplicate systems).

    So in short: y'all are gonna pry pacman from my cold, dead hand.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I'm not against distros as a whole, some extra work will be inevitable because people have different preferences, but it feels like a waste having a Firefox package for arch, ubuntu, fedora and Debian while essentially all being identical. Indeed flatpak isn't perfect yet, but it works great for me and it's steadily improving

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