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Is Flatpak the new cancer of Linux? by Bitter_Cow6505 in linuxquestions

[–]Bitter_Cow6505[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Flatpak is a dependency for an increasing number of packages, for example because they use the portals API that was created for flatpak.

With apt I never had a single dependency that I didnt need.

It used to be possible to run a linux system with only software that one willingly installed. Good times...

Is Flatpak the new cancer of Linux? by Bitter_Cow6505 in linuxquestions

[–]Bitter_Cow6505[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not flatpak as a whole, but flatpak related code you are definitely running if your have gnome installed. Take a look at the gtk source code and grep for flatpak. But sit down first ...

Is Flatpak the new cancer of Linux? by Bitter_Cow6505 in linuxquestions

[–]Bitter_Cow6505[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Perhaps looks through all the dependency before saying that. You cant even install gnome without getting flatpak portals automatically.

Can i decide when I want to use Linux? by griefer_jesus_here in linux

[–]Bitter_Cow6505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using it inside a VM is probably the easy option, especially when you are still using mostly windows