Alright, here's a response article to @martijnbraam's "Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak". I'll be addressing some of their claims by explaining why some of the design decisions make sense the way they are.
Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised.
Thanks! (Can I claim a third pack by reporting a bug my patch introduced? :D)
I think Month of LibreOffice & the sticker packs are a great way to get more people involved long-term - after all the first patch/translation/bug report is often the most cumbersome one due to all the setup overhead.
I always try to lower the barriers I bump into along the way, eg. submitted this patch to #fedora to include all build debs ootb: src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lib…
“Wow!” — my reaction when I first saw the brand new logo for Flathub. The de-facto Flatpak app store for Linux that every other post on this site seems to
Years ago elementary was approached by Canonical to become an official Ubuntu flavor. “All” we had to do was offer Snap out of the box. We debated it—being able to offload some additional infrastructure concerns was attractive—but we realized it helped Canonical more than it helped us, and we had chosen Flatpak for all of its benefits as covered here:
Unfiltered Flathub is approved to be provided as a third party repo you can enable for Fedora 38! In the next release, if you enable Flathub as a third party repo, you will get everything on Flathub and not just the Fedora Flatpaks. #Fedora #Flatpak #Linux
Say hello to Tally for Plausible, a rebrand of my Plausible app to better differentiate it from Plausible Analytics itself!
The app supports: • Your dashboard from Plausible.io • Custom domains • A refreshed design • Cross-desktop light/dark style • A more app-like experience • Theoretically, phones!*
@signalapp does not support #linux on #aarch64 #arm, however, there is more than a project to support that unofficially, one of them is via #flatpak, which can be used with almost any linux distros, you can follow the link elagost.com/flatpak/ I am using it on #fedora @Raspberry_Pi
Are you deploying #flatpak apps and wondering how to store their configuration? I've just written a little chapter for the flatpak docs about this: github.com/flatpak/flatpak-doc…
In which we learn (surprise!) that Fedora and openSUSE, supporters of #flatpak, will suddently provide all of Flathub to their users, including proprietary software.
"CorsixTH aims to re-implement the game engine of Theme Hospital, and be able to load the original game data files. This means that you will need a purchased...
Late last year, this interesting article “[Flatpak Is Not the Future]” was published to the public, and very quickly grabbed the Linux community’s attention.
Is it just me or can’t Fedora Silverblue install Flatpaks downloaded from the web (flatpakref) in GNOME Software?
(This is a valid, decentralised way of distributing software that doesn’t require centralised services like Flathub, etc. and should be supported as a first-class citizen in free and open operating systems.)
Summary GNOME Software fails with “Failed to install file: not supported” error when opening a flatpakref file downloaded from the web. Installing Flatpaks from the web site of the app author thems...
