On Thursday 27 February 2025 18:40:05 Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote: > Does flatpak require a service to be running similar to snapd? Is flatpak > also reliant on a backend store (run by Canonical or similar)? I'm afraid I'm not able to answer your question. I found this explanation: "Flatpak is using OSTree, which is a kind of hardlink system. A hardlink is a way for the filesystem to point to the same object on disk from two or more different places." For example, OpenBoard is started by: /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=openboard --file-forwarding ch.openboard.OpenBoard @@ %f @@ As far as I understand, once the flatpak has been installed localy from flathub, it's run localy. The downside is that the packages are quite big (they contain most, if not all dependancies). The advantage is that the program does not rely on the libraries installed with the distribution, so you can have programs that are newer than those included in the distro. I don't master the other technical subtilities. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
