A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s App Store and Play Store were a thing.
We can no longer do that thanks to Flatpaks and Snaps as well as AppImages.
Recently i upgraded my Fedora system. I few days later i found out i was runnig some older apps since they were Flatpaks (i had completely forgotten how I installed bitwarden for instance.)
Do you miss the old system too?
Is it possible to bring back that experience? A unified, reliable CLI solution to make sure EVERYTHING is up to date?
On Arch Linux I’ve migrated away from Flatpaks, so I only use AUR and official repos.
Oh boy my updates speed increased like 3 to 5 times. Flatpak is slow as fuck.
Also my ISP is slow as fuck.
Guess what, Flatpaks have delta updates (a criminally underrated feature) so all things equal, updates are technically faster than pacman.
I practically observed it. To me flatpaks were horribly slow due to my download speed. I don’t know what sort of magic packages it was downloading, but I was waiting way longer than simply using pacman/AUR packages. 🤷
Arch has more mirrors for sure. But my point was on delta updates which technically make updating flatpaks faster and less bandwidth consuming, runtimes aside.