Pantherina, 1 year ago

Yup, Flatpaks are indeed great. Isolation, modern versions, no weird dependencies.

I have to manage a Debian PC fleet and I am too stupid for Ansible, so they all just got cleaned up extremely, all that bloat gone, apps replaced with flatpaks and now the system has like ⅓ the packages. Automatic updates then, VirtualBox is the only stupid thing with their kmod and all, but Virtmanager is also already on there.

Not all apps can be flatpaks, for example virt-manager, gnome-boxes can but its really restricted then.

But keeping the system slim just makes so much sense, its like removing this distro randomness which I am sure is needed for Linux to get their shit together and stop doing the same work at 10 different places.