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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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  • I personally don't really like it, since it sidesteps what is supposed to be the all-in-one package manager for the system, and integration can be poor.

    It's an alright idea, but I like the native package managers better. We're not Windows, we don't need so many different places to download our stuff.

    • Flathub is just one place. But it has verified apps, so you have no distro packaging issues, which is a Linux/BSD only problem.

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