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by com2kid 61 days ago
Linux has Snap, and Flatpak, and sometimes an app works with one or not the other.

It is the worst of both worlds.

I especially love how flatpak has its own version of graphics drivers, which results in my browser flatpak updating to a version that has a mismatch between my system drivers, flatpak, and the browser.

Too many bloody layers of abstraction.

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But say the Flatpak strategy were adopted fully, would it solve this? I've never noticed the permission difference between using (Snap or Flatpak) vs not, but I need to try it more.