Closed soredake closed 3 months ago
Transferred from this issue over at Flathub:
From https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/user-vs-system-install/
Per-user installations are recommended for most users, unless they have a specific reason to use system-wide installations.
If it's recommended, then why don't we mention that in the Setup Flatpak pages?
From the Debian page:
It could be just a link for more information. Otherwise most users will be installing system-wide.
System-wide installation is the default option for now.
I think it's better to add flathub repo as
user
repo by default, to avoid potential pollution of /var/tmp (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/528 and https://github.com/endlessm/systemd/commit/6bdb355a9e515b7b84ac1f37747603d4db4267c7) on distro's that don't clean up this path (opensuse for example) and to avoid any use of polkit (no entering password's anymore on distro's that require it when working with flatpak). Another reasons for usinguser
oversystem
can be found here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441428#c6