• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    That would be totally true if every software was distributed as a flatpak and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box. That’s just not reality.

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      5 days ago

      Not even then. For example the biggest Linux distribution in use is Ubuntu, and it doesn’t have flatpak built in. So even if a flatpak of an app is available, a user of Ubuntu would have to already understand what a flatpak is, and already know that it would make the app installable on Ubuntu, and know that flatpak itself can be installed separately, and know how to use a different install method already just to get the flatpak system onto their computer in the first place

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      4 days ago

      I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

      Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.

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        4 days ago

        I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

        They don’t all have that either

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          4 days ago

          And yet they all have a package manager of some kind to install packages from. It doesn’t have to be Flatpak specifically

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            3 days ago

            No, but all of them have different repos out of the box, which will lead to confusion when consumers can’t find the one they need.