I usually try to stay out of the whole snap vs flatpak discussion. Although I am just really confused as to why flatpak just does not seem to care about usability. You’re trying to create a universal packaging format I would think the point of it is that a user can just install an app and after reviewing permissions it should “just work”.
There are so many issues that yes, have simple solutions, but why are these issues here in the first place.
These are the issues that I have encountered that annoy me:
- Themes, cursors being inconsistent (needs to be fixed manually with flatpak --user override
- IDE’s are unusable without extensions
At least snap provides an option --classic to make the app work. Please explain to me why flatpak just evidently refuses to take this same approach.
The very concept of them is that they bring along basically everything but the kernel - all their library dependencies, all their config, everything. So they’re ‘reliable’ and ‘easy to start’, but also bloated, slow to start, resource hungry, don’t depend on system libraries that can be updated independently, and as you see, look like crap. Working as intended, nothing to see here.