linuxmemes @lemmy.world rollingflower @lemmy.kde.social 3 mo. ago

Dont install random stuff to your system guys

flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

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I love flatpak but if you aren't using the AUR on arch what's the point?!
- Wait people don’t just install arch to say that they use it ?
  
  I love Arch but I hate installing and configuring it.
- Arch wiki
  
  I mean most of it works for every distro, not just arch.
- There are people that choose flatpak for some apps and the AUR for other apps I heard from a friend 🌚
- I just want new packages and Tumbleweed sucks, and don't even get me started on Fedora and their codec nonsense. Every time I tried Fedora I run into issues. You can't even use their packaged version of VLC cause they don't also package the correct version of ffmpeg. Fedora is a joke. Nobara even worse cause that one is outdated on top of it. Arch is the way and you are all wrong.
  
  Don't you ever talk to me or my wife's distro ever again
  
  Ah, a man of culture
  
  Thank software patents for the codec trouble, not Fedora / Red Hat. They just don't want to get their asses sued for free software
  
  Anyway I can use VLC and ffmpeg just fine with RPMFusion, idk what ur issue is, but judging by that
  
  you are all wrong
  
  i probably just wasted my time on a brainless troll like you.
  
  What sucks exactly with TW? For me it is Arch in easy mode 😂
Meanwhile flatpack: (unverified)
- They specifically only added the repo with verified apps
  
  flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Flathub doesn't have the apps i need from AUR.
If an AUR package wants to install 137 python dependencies, I usually search for a flatpak instead.
- Why is this the case? Have I been installing stuff wrong my entire life?
  
  Beside what @fatihozs@mastodon.social wrote:
  
  If the package wants to install an awful amount of dependencies it means those dependencies are only used by that package on my system. Flatpaks contains all dependencies, so the required disk space would be similar to the flatpak.
  
  My feeling is flatpak install time is quicker in this case, to install 1 flatpak vs 138 AUR packages. I never measured it though.
  
  I only do this if an insane amount of dependencies needed. Some dependencies are normal, if more than 50 than I think AUR is not an ideal way to distribute a software, or also include a -bin package.
  
  If no flatpak available I still install the 137 dependencies, so nothing wrong with that, it's simply the way I like to manage my system.
  
  @pineapplelover @infeeeee No, some people just don't want to install tons of packages just for an application they want to use to. The more package means the higher chance for system breakage. It's better checking dependencies and pkgbuild before install
- Personally i like chaotic-aur because it's already pre compiled
  The only aur packages on my is system is stacer-bin (the only cleaner i trust other than bleachbit)
- You can remove dependencies after install, at least in yay, I never do tho.
  
  That's install dependencies (in PKGBUILD they are called makedepends), python programs usually need them for runtime (depends in PKGBUILD). On the main page of a package they are listed together, but on the PKGBUILD they are separate
I don't care about flatpaks, overlays have everything
I just hate snaps lol
I have just had bad experiences with flatpack so I don't want to use it and the aur has the stuff I need and flatpack dose not
- I've had nothing but good experiences with Flatpaks/Flathub and bad experiences with AUR/nixpkgs.
  
  Fedora also has it's own Flatpak repo now with it's own runtime.
haha also nix... because I horde dependencies.

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