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Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future”

1 pointsby judiisisover 1 year ago

2 comments

chrisjjover 1 year ago
&gt;&gt; Flatpak wants to download 3D drivers, patented video codecs, themes, locales, Qt 5, KDE 5, GTK 3, ICU, LLVM, ffmpeg, Python, and everything else in org.kde.Platform, all to run a calculator.<p>&gt; Flatpak installs these runtimes to ensure that you and other users are running the exact same binaries and libraries<p>So this calculator&#x27;s use &#x2F;runs&#x2F; these 3D drivers, patented video codecs, ffmpeg etc.? Sounds very unlikely.
porkbeerover 1 year ago
Flatpak is a scourge, wasteful, and a constant security headache. I would invest great effort in removing it from my life.<p>But let ke tell you how I really feel...