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• EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • charlotte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • tslnox@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The same goes for me, but with Portage, brother.

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    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty hilarious for mac users, of all people, to complain about centralisation. Like, don’t you live in a walled garden?

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