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?
Arch-based distro here, a lot of shit from AUR and such and it autoupdates from my package manager/aur helper.
The 2 or 3 flatpaks I installed I have to manually update… But to be honest I’m fairly sure that there’s some config or change I could make to
yaythat would make it update flatpaks too. And even if not… Well. I could do what the (as of now) top comment said and make a lil’ script. Though running two commands is really not a huge sacrifice :PAlso back when I used Debian, apt had some hook in it that would update Flatpaks there too.
No Appimages for me though. Don’t care for the entire format.
Anyhow to me the killer feature of Linux was never the package manager so much as it was how much liberty it gives me to customize everything. Flatpaks and such are just another aspect of that.