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What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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I always use Flatpaks when available, I have been using it for about 1~2 years and honestly, I haven't found any issues that are deal breakers, mostly some missing storage permissions, but KDE makes this easy to deal with. I know some apps have some issues, but the biggest one that I had is that Steam Flatpak still requires Steam-Devices to be installed as a package, but that's more to do with the way Steam Input works.
The only issue that I have is that uninstalling Flatpaks should present an option to delete the app data.
So how do you delete app data after uninstalling?
And does uninstalling a flatpak app also uninstall flatpak dependencies that came with it?
flatpak uninstall --delete-data example-packagefrom what I have seen, NO it does not do so automatically. there is a flatpak command option to clean out unused runtimes, and another to remove user data.
you either manually delete the data, or there's some
flatpakcommand option, or you can use a tool such aswarehousewhich is available as a flatpak.other posts list the specific commands.
you can use
flatpak remove --unused --delete-datato remove all unused dependencies and delete their data.It does. The unused command is mostly for after updates, then what’s used may have changed.
If you install your flatpaks through the discover store it gives you an option to delete data whenever you uninstall
Same on Gnome software
But I guess I agree that it should prompt you when doing it through a TUI
Check out Warehouse for deleting app data