I would be, but the promise is just broken. Let’s say you want to do the new cool thing and run Bazzite on your console gaming PC on your TV. Now you also want to watch videos that are any normal format these days or (GASP) HEVC like you could on an XBox. You install flatpak VLC because it “just plays everything” in your experience. Your experience is ruptured for both VLC and flatpak now. Flatpaks run on system .so’s actually sometimes and installing a Flatpak doesn’t mean an app “just works” like Mac or Windows…
I get the convenience, I really do, and works on every linux distro which is a plus, but I usually stay clear of them because of the bloat. Maybe that is a misconception on my part. I should preference that with the fact I use Arch (btw)…so AUR usually has everything I need.
It doesn’t even produce convenience versus just doing AUR package install, though! Nor does it actually containerize for security well! It is bloat alone with shit user experience!
Edit: to be fair I should note that VLC in Fedora recently came into conflict with Fedora nonfree blocking all updates via some 1997-level RPM jank, idk whose fault it was, but Flatpak gets you around that so it is not without use
Edit on edit: it runs and doesn’t preclude install but current VLC does not work on Fedora out of the box with ANY nonfree codecs
I would be, but the promise is just broken. Let’s say you want to do the new cool thing and run Bazzite on your console gaming PC on your TV. Now you also want to watch videos that are any normal format these days or (GASP) HEVC like you could on an XBox. You install flatpak VLC because it “just plays everything” in your experience. Your experience is ruptured for both VLC and flatpak now. Flatpaks run on system .so’s actually sometimes and installing a Flatpak doesn’t mean an app “just works” like Mac or Windows…
I get the convenience, I really do, and works on every linux distro which is a plus, but I usually stay clear of them because of the bloat. Maybe that is a misconception on my part. I should preference that with the fact I use Arch (btw)…so AUR usually has everything I need.
It doesn’t even produce convenience versus just doing AUR package install, though! Nor does it actually containerize for security well! It is bloat alone with shit user experience!
Edit: to be fair I should note that VLC in Fedora recently came into conflict with Fedora nonfree blocking all updates via some 1997-level RPM jank, idk whose fault it was, but Flatpak gets you around that so it is not without use
Edit on edit: it runs and doesn’t preclude install but current VLC does not work on Fedora out of the box with ANY nonfree codecs
FP and Electron both are brutal on limited storage, so being able to pick and choose where needed can be helpful.