instead of using ‘krita’ in the command line, I need to use like, ‘~/.local/var/org.kritafoundation.krita.flatpak’
Does your DE not find it for you? Both GNOME and KDE seem to find my flatpaks, so I just launch them from there.
Ideally you don’t launch GUI apps from scripts, and you don’t install CLI apps via flatpak. So the handful of times you do want to launch a GUI app from a script, I think it’s reasonable for there to be a little bit of annoyance.
You can make an alias if it really bothers you.
Appimages are actually my current favorite method for universal install. I rename them, then stuff them in my ~/bin/ directory. My gripe with appimages is there is no auto generated .desktop file.
That, and nothing autos updates them, not to mention the compete lack of a sandbox, so it can do anything your user account can do.
Adding repos was invented by the Devil
Yup, the only exceptions are “official” repos. Projects like Debian and Fedora don’t ship nonfree software, so the “official” extra repos are essential for things like nvidia drivers.
Arch’s AUR
If you don’t like extra repos, you shouldn’t like the AUR, since that’s essentially the same idea. You’re basically running arbitrary code on your machine.
Does your DE not find it for you? Both GNOME and KDE seem to find my flatpaks, so I just launch them from there.
Ideally you don’t launch GUI apps from scripts, and you don’t install CLI apps via flatpak. So the handful of times you do want to launch a GUI app from a script, I think it’s reasonable for there to be a little bit of annoyance.
You can make an alias if it really bothers you.
That, and nothing autos updates them, not to mention the compete lack of a sandbox, so it can do anything your user account can do.
Yup, the only exceptions are “official” repos. Projects like Debian and Fedora don’t ship nonfree software, so the “official” extra repos are essential for things like nvidia drivers.
If you don’t like extra repos, you shouldn’t like the AUR, since that’s essentially the same idea. You’re basically running arbitrary code on your machine.
The AUR can be great, just be careful.