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What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Really awesome. They're all contained within my home directory too, so when I swap distros I can just copy my home dir and all my installed apps are carried over that way. Super useful feature that never gets mentioned! The downside to flatpaks is having to use them for cli in any way is a huge pain.
Why not use a seperate /home partition if that's something you value?
I do, that doesn't keep packages installed between distro reinstalls or swapping between entirely different distros. I'm talking about the actual packages and app data themselves that are contained in home.
For automatic installation I recommend ansible, its real easy
There's literally no need. It's auto installed because everything is portable and most applications that launch .desktop files know to look for it's directory.
Then you didn't explain it very well. Your former comment clearly states that copying the files keeps the packages (so you don't have to redownload?) and the data, but "doesn't keep packages installed" (hinting that .desktop files don't get found)