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This fills me with dread. I don't think the app stores we've seen have been good things for a number of reasons. I hope, if this succeeds, it turns out to be a good thing.
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Ubuntu packages get updated on a much faster cadence then Debian in my experience.
By design, yes. Debian prioritizes stability over being on the cutting edge. If you always want the latest and greatest, Debian isn't the right distro for you.
i like it because it actually solves problem (getting proprietary software like slack) instead of creating ones and/or getting in the way (i'm looking at you snap).
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 becom…
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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…
I think that's what Freedesktop does, and why Flatpak heavily relies on XDG variables.
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?
Appimage is macos flavor, it never needs your sudo to install the package, which is nice.
Flatpak is a redhat flavor(kind of), it needs sudo sometimes, but OK.
Snap is a ubuntu flavor(kind of), it is like systemd that can overtake the whole system, it can install package and even the whole system I was told, too much as a package manager for me.
I don't use Snap. Appimage is not as widely adopted as the rest two? I think Flatpak is a great middle ground.
It will be really cool if KDE and Gnome work together to build this.
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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.
Running with the crowd has some advantages. Many feet passing on the path before you trample more bugs before you get there etc.
For anyone looking to use debian I highly recommend it and prefer it to any other distro.
This fills me with dread. I don't think the app stores we've seen have been good things for a number of reasons. I hope, if this succeeds, it turns out to be a good thing.
Unlike google play, apple's appstore and canonical's Snap, flatpak isn't limited to a single repo, apps from other repos will show up in the store ui just like any other app.
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 becom…
I use Fedora and this is how I use Flatpak as well. Some software does have some problems when used through Flatpak. I vaguely recall Blender's Flatpak version having some issues. I would also like to see more transparency with who is publishing the Flatpak on Flathub. Maybe I'm just dumb but it is not immediately obvious to me who the publisher is and whether or not this is an officially supported Flatpak applicatio…