Before I gone to nixos, I actually installed nix on mint, and it worked as great as flatpacks.
Ok yeah it’s complicated to use, but you can just use it as a traditional package manager with nix-env.
So if you want more recent packages, you may want to look into it (and ignore the complicated declarative part, unless you want to fall in the rabbit hole)
Depending on your experience with flatpaks that’s not exactly a rousing endorsement :P
I generally like the idea but often ran into issues that only the flatpak versions of applications would run into (stuttering/performance/permission issues mostly in my case). Most of the stuff I have is still a flatpak, but I do occasionally need to use appimages instead.
If you ignore problems due to lack of permission to open a folder (good. Get sandboxed, idiot.), I don’t have any issues with flatpacks apart that it uses a lot of space.
Nix does too, but it actually reuse duplicate versions, and if you have BTRFS you can just dedupe it.
Nowadays I don’t use flatpacks. Nix got everything I need
Before I gone to nixos, I actually installed nix on mint, and it worked as great as flatpacks.
Ok yeah it’s complicated to use, but you can just use it as a traditional package manager with nix-env.
So if you want more recent packages, you may want to look into it (and ignore the complicated declarative part, unless you want to fall in the rabbit hole)
Depending on your experience with flatpaks that’s not exactly a rousing endorsement :P
I generally like the idea but often ran into issues that only the flatpak versions of applications would run into (stuttering/performance/permission issues mostly in my case). Most of the stuff I have is still a flatpak, but I do occasionally need to use appimages instead.
If you ignore problems due to lack of permission to open a folder (good. Get sandboxed, idiot.), I don’t have any issues with flatpacks apart that it uses a lot of space.
Nix does too, but it actually reuse duplicate versions, and if you have BTRFS you can just dedupe it.
Nowadays I don’t use flatpacks. Nix got everything I need