I’m an Arch user, so before I come across as disingenuous, I need to clarify that I just like to stick with ‘pacman’ as much as possible so that my install stays as “clean” as possible. Most of the time If I can’t find something in pacman I can get it in the AUR. “Varia” isn’t found in the AUR yet and in such cases I’ll go to github and install it from there.
“Varia supports some basic functionality you’d expect, such as resuming incomplete downloads upon relaunch, but right now doesn’t support saving files outside of your default download directory. I want to change this in the future while still having a minimal set of permissions with Flatpak.”
giantpinkrobots on github
Big game changer for me is that it doesn’t support saving files outside of the default download directory. Anything to do with ‘Flatpak’ is of a concern to me as well.
@juli
Fair enough, I guess each to his own. If you use a distro of your choice and apply a methodology that works for you, then far be it from me to tell you how to do it. Enjoy.