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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The idea with flatpaks are flawed by design as everything can't be there. I want to install the latest version of these there: kde Plasma, wayland, Nvidia drivers, and the Linux kernel. It will never be available there. Better to go back to the drawing board on how to fix this in a good way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A kernel flatpak? That'd be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I would be less against flatpaks if you could do everything with it. But it seems to try to slow multiple problems at the same time and failing.

I think it is time to actually come up with a better design solution.