I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And how do y’all cope with waiting for all the AUR installed packages to rebuild after every update? Alacritty takes ages to build for me. Which is why I only update the AUR installed and built applications every 2 weeks.

  • asudoxOP
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    Right. So my priority should be like this:

    Proprietary: Flatpak

    Open Source: Official Repo then AUR

    • Strit
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      My priority is: Official repo, AUR then Flatpak.

      No matter what license it is. Although, if I need microsoft stuff I usually go flatpak there, so it’s sealed off.

    • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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      This. Flatpak also provides additional privacy and security features to at least somewhat keep that proprietary garbage under control