Martin Owens 

My life has changed today.

Before I was but an ambivalent #linux desktop user of #flatpak, but now I am converted.

I have two operating systems because of all this Gtk4 compile business which is making my life more complicated than it needs to be.

But to be able to share the .var directory between the two year old PopOS and the alpha for #Ubuntu 24.04 and have the installed flatpaks Just-Work with all my saved data. It's the kind of not-have-to-think-about-it that's really convincing.

Apr 14, 2024 at 6:49pmWeb
Show threadnojhan, à gauche de DevadataApr 14, 2024
@doctormo I'm wondering: since Firefox got distributed by Ubuntu via Flatpack, I have to redo a large part of my config (the one not synchronized with Firefox account) by hand at every update because it can't get back wherever is the previous config. I wouldn't want to add Inkscape to this list of painful stuff.
Show threadrazzeApr 14, 2024
@nojhan @doctormo I think you meant to write snap instead of flatpak, ubuntu isn't fond of flatpak
Show threadnojhan, à gauche de DevadataApr 14, 2024
@razze @doctormo Oh. My bad.
Show thread❄️ freezr ❄️Apr 14, 2024

@doctormo

It looks more like a trick rather than a solution, you could do the same with a chroot environment as well.

Show threadabstrmApr 15, 2024

@doctormo

Maybe #containertoolbx will let you stick to one operating system? (It makes it easy to share your home directory between the host and a container.)
https://containertoolbx.org/

toolbx

Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux

Show threadNathanApr 16, 2024
@doctormo QT port when? (Just kidding ...unless...)