5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Flatpak first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Flatpak was overwhelming, required flatseal and often theming broke.”
regret · personal · Tooster · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Flatpak left around 30GB of NVIDIA runtimes lying around. Each version approaches 1GB in size, and Flatpak will install updates for all versions of the driver you have ever installed.”
regret · personal · zamalek · 2023-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it seemed like flatpaks were taking more storage than an install of the same apps from repositories.”
regret · personal · aliqot · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Software is installed with flatpaks, appimages, or in distrobox.”
neutral · personal · robador · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's great to have my flatpaks updating through the GUI update tool”
neutral · personal · entropicdrifter · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?