I’ve been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:
Just install any app on any distro, isolated from the base system and with granular rights management. I’ve just set up my first flatpak-centric system and didn’t notice any issues with it at all, apart from a 1-second waiting time before an app is launched.

What’s your long-term experience?

Notice any annoying bugs or instabilities? Do apps crash a lot? Disappear from Flathub or are unmaintained? Do you often have issues with apps that don’t integrate well with your native system? Are important apps missing?

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
    111·
    1 year ago

    ive had supprisingly little issues with flatpaks.

    i have been running silverblue for about half a year now, and rely heavily on them.

    i can remember 3 distinct issues:

    vs code commandlines start in the sandbox, which needs a workarround (rather understandable)

    either the fedora, or the flathub build of firefox didnt come with some video codec, OpenH264 i think. switching to the other build fixed it (imo more a licensing issue with the codec than a flatpak problem)

    on rare occasions (about once every 3 month)
    steam behaves weirdly, and refuses to start until i update the flatpak.

    other than that, it has been a smoth ride.