I’m trying to install a Flatpak application from the terminal, but the process is extremely slow and doesn’t seem to make any progress. The download starts but then gets stuck for a long time without any noticeable progress.
I’ve already tried:
Running flatpak update to ensure everything is up to date.
Checking my internet connection (which is stable).
Restarting the installation process multiple times.
Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Same. Flatpak installations have always been painfully slow since I started using Fedora regularly last December. I dread Flatpak installations. It takes close to an hour to install all my apps. Today is particularly bad, I’m getting kilobytes per second on a fresh Fedora install. I already deleted the Flatpak config files and ran flatpak repair. It’s absolutely horrible. I’m installing Gear Lever now for over 15 minutes at least and it just passed 70%.
Does Flatpak have local mirrors or am I downloading from across the planet? It’s unusable as it is.
Sorry, I don’t know what remote it might have been. I was testing so far on an older PC. Yesterday, I installed Fedora 41 KDE on my main PC and problems just started piling up, too much. Flatpak slowness is the least of them. Looks like I’m back on Windows for now. Thanks though. Cheers.
Downloading Alpaca from Flathub via the Software Center was incredibly slow yesterday for me, so I’d guess it has something to do with flathub and not necessarily Fedora itself. It was slow for a couple of hours, but then everything went back to normal.
Have you tried the Gnome version (Fedora 41 Workstation) to see if you run into the same set of problems? I don’t necessarily think KDE is worse, but I did run into odd bugs and errors here and there in my many weeks of testing and comparing both before finally deciding on Gnome.
Oh no, I know it’s not Fedora but something with Flatpak. RPM packages install quickly, even large ones. I know that KDE Plasma has some stability issues and quirks but I got used to them and found some workarounds, also Plasma 6.3 fixed couple of my issues, oh and I can’t stand Gnome, it hurts my brain, so that’s out. After months of testing it’s KDE Plasma or nothing
Also, without getting into too many details, the issues seem to be related to my on-board Realtek Audio and Ethernet, plus some Wayland/NVIDIA/GSYNC issues and poor CPU performance in some games. So, a topic for another day
Gotcha. Despite Microsoft’s BS and people actually trying to switch away from Windows, the fact is many run into issues and just go back, which is a shame and makes me sad. One of the biggest blockers for Linux desktop gaining more market share.
Yeah, seriously, this is sad. Though I don’t hate Windows itself, it always worked for me, and I have a good grip on the various issues but I hate the direction Microsoft is taking so yeah… gotta go, I guess, sooner or later.
But yeah, there are just too many issues with desktop Linux distros. I run a few Ubuntu and Debian servers and they’re great, but Linux desktop is a never ending adventure… and not always the fun kind.
Fedora with KDE is by far my favorite and it worked mostly fine on the older PC, so I’m hoping maybe in half a year or so, drivers will improve. Though Wayland, oh man… 16 years in development and GSYNC still works better under X11…
Yup. I’m baffled by Ubuntu in particular. I used to love it so much. As you say, it’s still great on servers. How they messed up the desktop version so badly is beyond me. I hate it these days. So heavy and laggy.
