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- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English71•8 months ago
It was me. Reinstalled three times a couple days ago because I’m an idiot.
But I’m an idiot who uses FOSS and I rather be dumb in a world of genius than a genius in a world of dumb.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English27•8 months ago
I like how know one wants snap but everyone chose flatpak.
I like flatpaks
- sleepyTonia ( @sleepyTonia@programming.dev ) 5•8 months ago
Now I’m just hoping AppImage will follow in Snap’s footsteps.
- PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@feddit.de ) 8•8 months ago
Appimage is better for cli apps. Different purposes. Neovim appimage is very useful
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English7•8 months ago
Appimage is broken in many ways. Use a container
- PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@feddit.de ) 1•8 months ago
I’ve never had problems with appimage, and for me, containers are for my servers. I don’t want stateless, sandboxed applications for my workstations.
In what ways is it broken?
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•8 months ago
Containers don’t need to be stateless. I use Distrobox to create environments that I run my software in. Podman is the best for Distrobox but it can use the docker backend as well.
appimage aren’t bad
- fine_sandy_bottom ( @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•8 months ago
WDYM? I thought canonical was kinda standing their ground with snaps.
- SimplyTadpole ( @SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•8 months ago
I am really glad Flatpak exists, it made using Linux much easier for me ^^
- HouseWolf ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) 8•8 months ago
I know there’s abit of a war going on about the technical merits of flatpaks which I don’t know enough about the Unix world to fully understand.
As a newer user flatpaks have been pretty great, I like having the Android like permissions system through flatseal especially for my proprietary apps like Discord.
I dunno if I’d go all in on using only flatpaks but for what it is, consider me a fan.
- KNova ( @knova@infosec.pub ) 8•8 months ago
I love flatpaks
- Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•8 months ago
The issue with those numbers is that they don’t account for people having multiple devices. My PC, Laptop, and Steam Deck all download apps from flathub, so I’m likely counted multiple times. On the other hand most people only use one device, so the actual numbers probably don’t doffer much. It’s an estimate anyway.
Edit: I’m not surprised the amount of people using flatpak/flathub increased so much. It’s my preferred method of installing proprietary software and works on any distro, even unconventional ones like NixOS or Alpine. Sandboxing continues to get better, be it isolation or usability.
- BlanK0 ( @BlanK0@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months ago
Lets gooooo 🔥
Glad to see growth on flathub 💪
- downhomechunk [chicago] ( @downhomechunk@midwest.social ) English5•8 months ago
I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.
- 4vr ( @4vr@lemmy.ca ) 4•8 months ago
I like flatpaks but bundling everything as flatpak is a overkill.
- somegeek ( @somegeek@programming.dev ) 2•8 months ago
Why does it only have git sign in? What If I don’t want to use those shitty git services?
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 6•8 months ago
You mean GitHub signin?
Because Flathub operates on GitHub. If you hate it that much, you could use a different Flatpak distributor (I heard Fedora has its own?)