A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s App Store and Play Store were a thing.

We can no longer do that thanks to Flatpaks and Snaps as well as AppImages.

Recently i upgraded my Fedora system. I few days later i found out i was runnig some older apps since they were Flatpaks (i had completely forgotten how I installed bitwarden for instance.)

Do you miss the old system too?

Is it possible to bring back that experience? A unified, reliable CLI solution to make sure EVERYTHING is up to date?

  • Syudagye
    15·
    1 year ago

    Well, one way to address this would be to have a little hook that triggers when you do a full system upgrade, and it updates your flatpaks.

    also flatpaks are still centralized thanks to flatpak itself, same for snaps, nix, cargo and similar package managers. It’s not like you have to update every single app by yourself, like for AppImages and apps on windows or macos for example.