https://lemmy.world/post/12069769

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

They are awesome but personally I don't use them. I have an obsession with memory management. Flatpak apps don't share libraries so they get chunky at times. This shouldn't be a problem for most people. It's a personal problem.

It's a decent packaging solution.

regarding the sandboxing, all the negatives are present with none of the benefits, wish they'd just rip that shit out

if you want to run software you don't trust, firejail it or get it's snap

I dont use insecure tools to install software

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 bloated. Not as bad as snap though. xbps for the win

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 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.

Thicchub