Is there a downside to Flatpak? - eviltoast

Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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    9 months ago

    Do you know if flatpak leverages the memory side of this? With shared libs, you only keep one copy in memory, regardless of how many applications use it. Makes application launch faster, and memory usage lower.

    For flatpak, it of course will load whatever it needs to load, but does it manage to avoid loading stuff across other flatpaks?