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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn't even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple's App Store and Play Store were a thing.

We can no longer do that thanks to Flatpaks and Snaps as well as AppImages.

Recently i upgraded my Fedora system. I few days later i found out i was runnig some older apps since they were Flatpaks (i had completely forgotten how I installed bitwarden for instance.)

Do you miss the old system too?

Is it possible to bring back that experience? A unified, reliable CLI solution to make sure EVERYTHING is up to date?

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[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

This is why I really like KDE Plasma's discover. It's got integrations with apt, snap, Flatpack, and rpm, and that's only the ones I've tried so far.

I don't really use discover itself to manage my packages, cause for some reason I prefer to do it with the cli tools, but it is a great update notifier.

[-] mfat@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

Except it doesn't always work. I've seen it stuck and loading updates forever a few times, while a simple flatpak update command did the job with zero issues.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, are you in pro of flatpaks or against flatpaks?

Why compare what OP described to flatpaks, instead of the "killer features" you so miss?

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's why I don't use discover to do the actual updating. I just manually run my flatpak updates when discover tells me there are some.

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