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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.
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If you're separating your application from the core system package manager and shared libraries, there had better be a good and specific reason for it (e.g. the app needs to be containerized for stability/security/weird dependency). If an app can't be centrally managed I don't want it on my system, with grudging exceptions.
Chocolatey has even made this possible in Windows, and lately for my Windows environments if I can't install an application through chocolatey then I'll try to find an alternative that I can. Package managers are absolutely superior to independent application installs.
Typically Windows applications bundle all their dependencies, so Chocolatey, WinGet and Scoop are all more like installing a Flatpak or AppImage than a package from a distro's system package manager. They're all listed in one place, yes, but so's everything on FlatHub.
I think containerization for security is a damn good reason for virtually all software.
Definitely. I'd rather have a "good and specific reason" why your application needs to use my shared libraries or have acess to my entire filesystem by default.
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that Flatpak aren't centrally managed...
I think stability is a pretty good reason
Open Discover, Gnome Software etc -> Click update?
And with topgrade you can even upgrade flatpaks and your distros repos in one go
I'm now confused if they're saying that flatpak is centrally managed or not. To me it seems centrally managed, both the flatpak ecosystem but your whole machine (repo packages, firmware, flatpak) if you use those app stores. I might've misunderstood what they said.
We're both saying that it's centrally managed