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by yjftsjthsd-h 595 days ago
> Can I ask why?

I dislike the way flatpak is effectively a second distro on top of whatever else I'm running; it eats a rather lot of additional disk space (and network bandwidth), requires that I run updates for it in addition to everything else, and I'm not sold on its security patching story (last I looked, it strongly favored everyone effectively vendoring most dependencies and I don't trust them to keep up with patches like my actual distro).

To be fair, there's also a list of reasons I do like it, just... both pros and cons.

> It was tiring getting bug reports that were only reproducible on certain drivers and setups

I'll give you userspace, but drivers should be like the one thing that flatpak doesn't help with? It's the same kernel, not a VM.