I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

  • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    No doubt the benefits of technology on a server benefits the desktop user to some degree?

    Containerization does add complexity in its assembly, but simplifies things for the system overall, which I think is appealing.

    Still, that is just another abstraction away from the machine.