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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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Is compiling it yourself with the time and effort that it costs worth more than a few GB of disk space?
Then your disk is very expensive and your labor very cheap.
For a lot of project "compiling yourself", while obviously more involved than running some magic install command, is really not that tedious. Good projects have decent documentation in that regard and usually streamline everything down to a few things to configure and be done with it.
What's aggravating is projects that explicitly go out of their way to make building them difficult, removing existing documentation and helper tools and replacing them with "use whatever we decided to use". I hate these.
I should have noted that I'll compile myself when we are talking about something that should run as a service on a server.
99% of the time it's just "make && sudo make install" or something like that. Anything bigger or more complicated typically has a native package anyway.
They didn't say anything about compiling it themselves, just that they prefer native packages to flatpak
edit: I can't read
2 comments up they said