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).
Make sure that the apps have access to your discrete graphics card. Flatseal allows you to manage flatpak permissions
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.
