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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    9 months ago

    All that was said here, plus sometimes they don’t work. I’ve reported a bug where the kdenlive flatpak version doesn’t render titles or fades - and that’s on Debian Testing, Arch, and Asahi Fedora. Native version works perfectly, but forces me to download an untidy amount of KDE stuff on my gnome installs ; flatpak would’ve been a cool solution to that.

    I am yet to report another where Ardour nukes pipewire, at least on Asahi, but on Arch it was misbehaving also. Native, distro-provided version works perfectly.

    I don’t trust flatpak because no one single publisher can test every possible config, and I’m afraid distros become “lazy” and stop packaging native versions of stuff since it’s a lot of work.