Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Today I'm gonna show you what problems there are with Flatpaks and the Flathub repository and whether there is still a reason to exist for Flatpak.
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Content:
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0:00 Intro
0:33 Popularity and Advantages of Flatpak
1:46 Problem 1: excessive disk usage
3:07 Problem 2: integration of plugins
3:43 Problem 3: bad system integration (e.g. man pages)
5:23 Comparison to Snap
6:06 Problem 4: user-unfriendly restrictions
7:14 Problem 5: Flathub as a developer
9:00 Problem 6: no (real) competition for Flathub
10:19 Conclusion about Flatpak
14:31 Ohter image based systems
16:42 App-Image
17:24 Outro