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what are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak? (lemmy.ml)

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target OS is debian or linux mint

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[–] Samueru@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I do that with appimages as they support a portable home. And that location can be moved around.

You can't get bubblewrap sandboxing with appimages in a user friendly way though, but I think I will start working on that (yes I'm serious).

Flatpak hardcoded ~/.var which I found a really bad decision and they had several issues opened on this which went really bad if you ask me:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/46

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1651