I've been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:
Just install any app on any distro, isolated from the base system and with granular rights management. I've just set up my first flatpak-centric system and didn't notice any issues with it at all, apart from a 1-second waiting time before an app is launched.

What's your long-term experience?

Notice any annoying bugs or instabilities? Do apps crash a lot? Disappear from Flathub or are unmaintained? Do you often have issues with apps that don't integrate well with your native system? Are important apps missing?

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • jack@monero.town
            11·
            1 year ago

            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.

            It's auto installed because everything is portable

            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)