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I've tried numerous items from their repos over the years, but without fail there's always...something. An visual novel that glitches when it shouldn't. A program that suddenly leaves an "update" that can't be updated. A program that won't play sound no matter what I do.

I really don't see the hype behind it.

I've tried numerous items from their repos over the years, but without fail there's always...something. An visual novel that glitches when it shouldn't. A program that suddenly leaves an "update" that can't be updated. A program that won't play sound no matter what I do. I really don't see the hype behind it.
[–] • 2 pts

Containerization has the run‐anywhere convenience, but it introduces another layer of problems. Flatpak is just one of the non proprietary container formats.

I prefer running software normally, but my second second choices are AppImage and Flatpak because they’re at least open standards. I only occasionally deal with the pain of building someone else’s software.

[–] • 2 pts

Neither do I. It seems like an artificial simplification of skills that should be second nature to any half-assed Linux sysadmin. Dumbing down of complex topics to appeal to the common caveman.

Even ignoring package managers, if you know how to Google (please forgive the jewphemism) compiling 95% of packages is absolutely trivial. "Missing <something>.h!" -> search "something" -> install either "libsomething-dev" or "something-devel"

[–] • 1 pt

Same issues with snap. I don't really like either of them, but flatpak does make installing Minecraft dead simple.

[–] • 1 pt

It gets the job done for more simple applications. Not nearly as bad as Snap.