Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, January 26, 2019 8:58:13 PM CET Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:02:39PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:48 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I'm shopping for an IMAP email client that does a decent job of
> > > handling HTML.  After doing a bit of reading I decided the first one
> > > to try would be Geary.
>
> I use Thunderbird, it works well.
>
> > > Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo?
> >
> > In my experience is amazing. Gentoo sometimes takes a lot of time to
> > stabilize some packages; flatpak usually have them immediately. For
> > nightly
> > builds is even better, since you don't need to pollute your stable system.
> >
> > I'm using
> >
> > git://github.com/fosero/flatpak-overlay.git
>
> Same here - it works great. I run closed-source freeware like steam,
> spotify, and discord and don't have any problems.

I actually run steam without Flatpak or similar. (Unless it uses Flatpak 
without telling me).
I use the "steam-overlay" for the steam client and have no issues.

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Joost