On 9/20/20 4:36 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 21:00 -0500, David wrote:
I am not up to date on the general consensus of using flatpaks in
September of 2020. I have no problem with flatpaks.
Now I have to set up all my web-stuff settings again.
Why would anybody want to use the rpm version of Firefox ?
Limited resources on their computer ??
I can't answer as to Firefox flatpaks, but I can with another package,
MuseScore. On my PC, a RPM version of MuseScore works as expected, the
flatpak version cannot print. You can go through the motions, select
your printer as expected, but nothing ever comes out of the printer. I
see that problem has existed for well over a year without a fix.
Flatpaks are an attempt to make an all-purpose single package that will
work on all distros. Sometimes they (flatpak creators) don't get it
right and your distro is too different from theirs, and things mayn't
work. I can forsee that if things continue to go down that route
they'll start advising people who can't get a package to work to change
distros, instead of fixing their flatpak.
Another source I found recently explains that flatpaks contain a lot of code
that usurps the normal working of the OS, which is why it works on any.
And why it's so slow!
--doug
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