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Bitwarden is now verified on Flathub for Linux (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I love what Flatpak is doing for Linux desktop. Let it grow!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not the ideal solution, but it is approachable and understandable for technically averse users. I think it's good to have, but I only used it for one package, and that was as a separate Steam install that included an old version of glibc that was used in a particular game's (Squad) anti-cheat until it updated it.

It's good for a stable platform, but each package needs it's own set of everything, which can be good (like the Steam example above having its own version of glibc instead of using the shared version on my system), it's a lot of bloat. I'm not using it unless I require it for some reason, but again it's nice to have around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think Flatpak is going to be compatible with Steam anyway in the long-term because layering container solutions doesn’t generally work very well, and Steam is going to want to use its own solution for better control over the libraries each game uses. Earlier versions used library redirection and some still do.

[+] [email protected] -46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kill it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But y tho?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

There's a big chunk of the Linux community that will always want to gatekeep it and push out anything that makes it easier for the layman to use

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wastes RAM and disk space (compared to package-manager installed applications) by storing more libraries on disk and loading them into RAM rather than just using the libraries already installed on the distro. It's probably better than Snap and Appimage though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it even a problem for a desktop in 2024? Never had an issue with RAM or diskspace. And even for those that have, they can just not use flatpak until they upgrade, no reason to kill it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assume the "kill it" comment was a little tongue-in-cheek. On small SBCs, like a Pi, or old hardware, it could be a problem. I've seen people with flatpaks taking up 30GB of space, which is significant. I'm not sure how much RAM it wastes. I assume running 6 different applications that have loaded 6 different versions of Qt libraries would also use significantly more RAM than just loading the system's shared Qt libraries once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't see a problem with Flatpak in this. It does what it's supposed to do. You find not using it better? That's great, that option is the default in all of the distributives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I agree. I do use Flatpaks, Snaps, and Appimages sometimes if I can't find a suitable deb repo/package. Flatpak is the best out of the three because they do try to avoid too much duplication through runtimes. I also use Docker quite a bit, which has similar issues (and benefits).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That is definitely a sacrifice being made here I agree with you. It gives developers more control over exactly how their app runs, but it does mean less storage efficiency.