Also, this is why I can’t wait for deb, rpm, .run or .bin formats to die, at least for applications. If Resolve was a Flatpak, a Snap or an Appimage, it would have had no issues surviving the upgrade. It would have come with the versions it needs. It would install and run on any distro without additional packages to install manually.

App Developers: use these new formats, you’ll do yourself, and your users a favor.

@thelinuxEXP
The one thing that I loathe is that you'll see many apps pulling in unmaintained dependencies.

Ancient library versions equals lots of possible vulnerabilities. As long as the sandboxing is secure, no problem, but we all know that all programs have bugs. So an exploit will happen at some point.

The only thing I use flatpak for is proprietary software.

Before people start pointing out that my normal installed libs also will have vulnerabilities: I know. But I trust the distro more to keep these up to date, than random people on the Internet.

@posiris @joshix

@jan @thelinuxEXP The main problem is that no distro has the resources to maintain and QA every popular application. Nope, not even that one.

From my perspective as a software developer, the distro maintainers are the random people I don't trust. If someone isn't getting their hands dirty in a specific application on a regular basis, how can I trust them to maintain it correctly?