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KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by Grimburger »

Gigachad wrote: post #24
Grimburger wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do I sell my software on pacman?

I’m not sure people will ever want to sell apps on a 3rd party store. Especially a Linux one. The entire industry has moved away from buying things directly on a single marketplace and moved to tying a payment or subscription to an account which works across OSs and store platforms. I’d be happy to pay for Linux software but there is no way I’d want to be tied to a particular distro/repo/storefront.

That's fair but some companies do want to sell their software and it's not particularly easy on Linux platforms.

There's basically Steam or DIY.

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by themodelplumber »

Liquix wrote: post #27

Opinions on Flatpaks/snaps notwithstanding, it's encouraging to see KDE and GNOME collaborating on projects like this. IMO desktop GNU/Linux has benefited greatly from moving away from offering LXDE/LXQT/Mate/Enlightenment/Cinammon flavors and towards a more digestible subset (GNOME only, GNOME/KDE/XFCE, etc) of polished desktop environments. Pipe dream, but it would be incredible to see all of the passionate, talent…

I'd prefer to see more easily-communicated DE standards and published levels of adherence, rather than moving to the uni-desktop.

Like if you want to select a desktop and are kind of new to desktop environments, maybe aim for the (imaginary example here) DE-5 level of standards-adherence. DE-4 and lower might suck in various ways even though they could have cool new features.

There are way too many benefits from the huge variety of DE approaches, including the benefit that Linux-critics often hide behind critique of a single desktop experience, which is lazy and attempts to steal focus from exactly this open, creative, diverse approach that is the jewel in the Linux ecosystem's metaphorical crown.

It's definitely great to see the groups working together on these projects that benefit everybody.

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by awill »

mesebrec wrote: post #15
mastazi wrote: post #9

I'm an Ubuntu user and the first thing I always do in a new system is removing the Ubuntu Store, completely removing snapd, and installing the Flathub Store.

Honest question; why do you still use Ubuntu then? By now, Snap is such a fundamental part of Ubuntu that it begs the question whether Ubuntu is right for you if you want to avoid it. Why not use a derivative or upstream that makes different choices?

agreed. Ubuntu are trying to hard to differentiate themselves, and it usually just hurts them. I'm guessing they'll drop snap in the future and blame the industry (like they did with systemd and wayland)

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by jdoss »

I used to think Flatpaks were a huge pain the butt, but over the last few years, I moved to using them for all third party software that I run on my Fedora Linux workstation. Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian all run without issues and they get consistent updates. I am convinced now that they are one of the best ways to ship commercial software on to Linux desktop. Flatpak has been a key part of me becoming 100% Windows free for my PC gaming. Not having to run a desktop KVM to switch between my work workstation and my Gaming PC has been super great.

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by cld8483 »

mesebrec wrote: post #15
mastazi wrote: post #9

I'm an Ubuntu user and the first thing I always do in a new system is removing the Ubuntu Store, completely removing snapd, and installing the Flathub Store.

Honest question; why do you still use Ubuntu then? By now, Snap is such a fundamental part of Ubuntu that it begs the question whether Ubuntu is right for you if you want to avoid it. Why not use a derivative or upstream that makes different choices?

Ubuntu is an African word which means "Afraid of Debian"

Seriously though, just install Debian. It's not hard, the netinstaller may be text-mode but it walks you through the simple steps one by one just like Ubuntu's GUI installer. Anybody who's comfortable using Ubuntu in the first place should be able to get through the Debian installer just fine.

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by Barrin92 »

mesebrec wrote: post #15
mastazi wrote: post #9

I'm an Ubuntu user and the first thing I always do in a new system is removing the Ubuntu Store, completely removing snapd, and installing the Flathub Store.

Honest question; why do you still use Ubuntu then? By now, Snap is such a fundamental part of Ubuntu that it begs the question whether Ubuntu is right for you if you want to avoid it. Why not use a derivative or upstream that makes different choices?

I don't personally remove snaps but if I did I'd still use Ubuntu for the sole reason that it is somehow the only distro that gets fonts right. I don't know what it is but on every other linux distribution font rendering looks horrible, and I could never figure out how to reliably fix it.

Re: KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

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Post by cld8483 »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #25

I had to use flatpack to install Bottles, I'm on Porteus because it's the only distrib I found that would fit on a 15 year old 512MB USB stick and then in the RAM directly... Let just say it wasn't a seamless experience but I'm glad I managed to run Cinema4D R20 or MPC Software with Bottles without too many bugs. Anyway Bottles is just fantastic, I tried Wine before but it never worked properly, but having to install…

AppImage is great, definitely the best of the bunch.
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