So I had/have a few apps installed from KDE Discover as flatpak. For example qbitorrent, kodi, google chrome.
Lot of times after updates kodi won’t start and had to reinstall, but last time it didn’t solve it, same happenned with qbittorrent.
Google Chrome was really unstable lately crashing often when playing youtube videos etc. Also had a lot of little stutters that it froze for 4-5 seconds.
Didn’t have any crash since and the stutters and micro freezes are also gone.
Wondering if I should reinstall my other apps like Steam and Heroic games launcher the same way.
When updating a game my PC starts lagging a bit even though the games are installed on a differrent drive. I know it’s an old PC i= 4790, 16Gb GTX 1070 8Gb, but still weird.
You shouldn’t use untrustworthy home repositories for installing browsers. The correct way to install Google Chrome is using the official Google repo with correct signing keys…
Adding the official Google Chrome repo:
sudo zypper ar -f https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 google-chrome
OBS is Open Build Service. Every private person can use it. Home repos are from private persons. They get only removed if they are illegal, violate licenses or other shady stuff.
Home repos do not have any quality control. They can harm your system. Only use it if you trust this person and know what you are doing. You need to check prior each update if they injected anything harmfull into the package.
…only some reasons to ALWAYS install Google Chrome from the official sources…
It is in the official openSUSE repos.
From the official upstream source which provides it via rpm and flatpak.
Did you ever use Myrlyn or zypper seto search for packages? Steam is already available on your system. So you don’t need to add an extra repo for it.
So a plain and simple sudo zypper install steam is all what is needed.