How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?

  • emiellr@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Worth noting that the confinement of Flatpaks and Snaps can have major drawbacks. It has been a major pain in the ass to get Flatpaks working nicely with fractional scaling (think tiny cursor, huge text, tiny text etc etc)

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Nothing in theory makes that an issue of flatpaks and snap, just that both rely on different means to interact with the host system that have been woefully slow to implement. If enough protocols are developed a flatpak or snap should be as capable as a native app with the safety benefits for free.