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This is actually a solvable problem. You provide a single store interface where you install flatpaks and traditional packages. Linux Mint does a pretty good job
by michaelmrose 3y ago
This is actually a solvable problem. You provide a single store interface where you install flatpaks and traditional packages. Linux Mint does a pretty good job of this.
With Arch you can basically rely on system packages and the AUR for 99.9% of everything.
Either way wrapping an interface around 1 or more method is a fairly trivial matter.
- seabrookmx 3y agoIt doesn't solve the multiple install methods issue. Fedora for instance already has this via Gnome Software, but provides a drop-down if multiple sources are available for an application, so it's still fragmented. Even if you removed that and had some sort of heirarchy, one app might have a better experience via Flatpak whilst one might be better via RPM. Until developers consolidate it's really not solved, IMO.