I did notice that sometimes the flatpack version of a program didn’t seem to recognise my graphic card. I’ve seen this first with Handbrake, but also with other apps it seems that i get better performance with the mint package or the official ppa. Did anyone notice anything similar?
I’m using Mint on an old HP laptop with a nvidia card so if anything I’m glad that everything is recognised properly (safeboot disabled).
That’s why I don’t use flatpaks, either they’re not accelerated, or they can’t use external libs already installed, or they can’t print etc etc. Sure, that’s all fixable if the devs were doing a good job on flatpaking, but they don’t, as it’s quite complex. So we end up with apps that have a reduced featured set. I personally prefer appimages, even if they’re a pain to update manually (from official sources always). I have about 10-15 such apps that I update them once a month manually. Everything else is from the official repo.
Same here. System apps and appimages are what I install.