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Flatpak’s Future May Leave Non-systemd Distros Behind (linuxiac.com)

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[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Why are people using flatpak again?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because at least with flatpak I don’t end up with app files littering my system and personal folders.

macOS’s application format used to be the best. It’s kind of a mess now with half of apps following xdg, some writing to the app folder, some application support and some iCloud Drive.

But it used to be good.

[–] wilmo@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

A clean home directory is the best selling point for me with flatpaks

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