AUR or Flatpak: What I Learned in 90 Minutes of Reading

[Kresimir]

I’ve already said everything I wanted to say about this.

Flatpak vs AUR?

I look for software in this order: official Arch Linux software repositories the AUR building it myself from source code (either making a PKGBUILD for it or keeping it in the home directory) Appimage from a trustworthy source Flatpak from a trustworthy source Snaps never. This may or may not be good for you, but it works for me, and this is what I recommend.

KDE's August 2020 Apps Update

Oh boy, where to even start? Well, with Flatpak, because it’s a much lesser evil of the two. In fact, it’s not really that bad. The only issue I have with the concept of flatpaks is that they statically link all or most of their dependencies and do not integrate well with the system. The obvious downside of statically linking dependencies is that flatpaks use a lot of disk space. A less obvious, but perhaps more serious disadvantage is that older versions of dependencies may lack securit…

Can I and should I use flatpaks instead of the packages from AUR?

Consider searching the forum, there have been about a dozen topics about this. In my opinion, for what it’s worth, AUR is much more preferable than flatpak. And I’d rather not use a computer than use snaps.