I dont use insecure tools to install software
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I don't know what that is and at this point I'm afraid to ask
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They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.
I love flatpaks and flathub. They're amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.
I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.
It's the easiest solution to packaging software for Linux that doesn't mean it's good, In fact fhe way no dependencies are shared absolutely wrecks my hard drive and makes everything super long (downloading, updating, etc...).
Where it shines is security but to be honest do you really need an open source app to be in it's own secure sandbox?
I vastly prefer nix and I wish packaging stuff for it was easier.
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I like them sonce they're easy to install and you can update all Flatpaks at once. But I don't likke the paths and run commands. Very unintuitive.
Flatpak works most of the time. Nix works almost all the time (except when stuff happens like the download fails)
Flatpak is free to assume anything about your system which is sometimes not compatible with NixOS