I’m currently running CachyOS (arch-based) and am looking for a good app to download flatpaks easily. I previously used Discover but it was really slow. What’s a good program everyone uses for getting and managing Flatpaks now?
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If you want a program instead of the website, this one looked decent
This looks good, thanks!
Just a little bit education, so you and if you ask questions the people trying to help you don’t get confused.
Flatpak is just the format. There can be many different independent stores. A store is a place where developers can upload their program with description and ready to install. Flathub in example is such a store, and the most common and popular one. Then there are applications who manage the download and installation from Flatpak. Discover is such an application in example. You can add other Flatpak sources, Flathub is most of the time already setup for you to use in Discover (and other apps).
I just use the commandline, which is the most efficient and fast way. For looking up I can still just use the Flathub website, and then use the commandline to install, remove and update the Flatpaks. But you need to learn and understand how terminals and commandline operation work (which isn’t a bad thing to learn anyway.
Bazaar
I just look up the name on the webpage and install+manage it with terminal commands.
True, those meet the requirements of being a store and/or an app.
Ever since using opensuse aeon, I know that if software or discover is slow it’s due to the package manager. Whatever gui app you will change to, it probably won’t make a big difference. On aeon it only uses flatpak which is why it’s increadibly fast
gnome-software, it can also tell you whether the app you want to install is available natively.
