Jon S. von TetzchnerJul 2, 2023

Technical Linux poll:

During the @Vivaldi gathering, we discussed a lot which Linux packages we should offer. We always try to be as flexible as possible and we already offer Linux support on Arm and X86 and we offer both DEB and RPM by default. My question to you is what are you using mainly for your installs?

I am sure some will say that their favorite packages are missing, but I can only list 4...

#Linux #Computer

DEB
43.9%
RPM
18%
Flatpak
32.6%
Snap
5.5%
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Show threadduser
@jon @Vivaldi
A little late to the poll here but i have a thought. On fedora, its difficult to set up full hardware video decoding/encoding using the rpm native package. Its due to how the mesa packages were removed from fedora's repos. You need to jump through several hoops to get it working and even then, updating the system sometimes throws errors.
The firefox flatpak has encoding from install. Much simpler.
Jul 4, 2023 at 12:06amWeb
Show threadduserJul 4, 2023
Personally, i favor flatpaks for this reason. It gives me exactly the experience the devs of an app intended. The advantage for devs is that they have one platform to support that covers most (Linux) platforms.
I remember i had to manually set up encoding for vivaldi when i first installed fedora 36. There may be a group of users still running vivaldi without all its features. Going flatpak may fix that