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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:58:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190126195813.GA32545@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc83fnra05MXPaO-5qTmJasrZZnmjUhELdW--w_s7DpA-cw@mail.gmail.com>

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@gmail.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.

Alec


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-26 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-25 18:48 [gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak? Grant Edwards
2019-01-25 18:58 ` email client: was: " Jack
2019-01-25 19:27   ` [gentoo-user] Re: email client: was: " Grant Edwards
2019-01-25 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2019-01-25 19:29   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2019-01-25 19:46     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2019-02-12 16:31       ` Grant Edwards
2019-01-26 19:58   ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2019-01-27  9:06     ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2019-01-25 19:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2019-01-25 19:40   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2019-01-27  9:03     ` J. Roeleveld

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