renzevFlatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.
BeigeAgendaIf I can choose between flatpack and distro package, distro wins hands down.
If the choice then is flatpack vs compile your own, I think I’ll generally compile it, but it depends on the circumstances.
ryannathansBecause it’s easier to use the version that’s in the distro, and why do I need an extra set of libraries filling up my disk.
I see flatpack as a last resort, where I trade disk space for convenience, because you end up with a whole OS worth of flatpack dependencies (10+ GB) on your disk after a few upgrade cycles.
Is compiling it yourself with the time and effort that it costs worth more than a few GB of disk space?
Then your disk is very expensive and your labor very cheap.
ReveredOxygenThey didn’t say anything about compiling it themselves, just that they prefer native packages to flatpak
2 comments up they said
If the choice then is flatpack vs compile your own, I think I’ll generally compile it, but it depends on the circumstances.
I should have noted that I’ll compile myself when we are talking about something that should run as a service on a server.
For a lot of project “compiling yourself”, while obviously more involved than running some magic install command, is really not that tedious. Good projects have decent documentation in that regard and usually streamline everything down to a few things to configure and be done with it.
What’s aggravating is projects that explicitly go out of their way to make building them difficult, removing existing documentation and helper tools and replacing them with “use whatever we decided to use”. I hate these.
99% of the time it’s just “make && sudo make install” or something like that. Anything bigger or more complicated typically has a native package anyway.