Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 7, 2024
People are always joking about windows having that "windows is not activated, plz fix" watermark that's always showing up on top of displays in public, but these days Linux has that sort of annoying watermark nonsense too, it's just phrased a little different.
Show threadmcgrewOct 7, 2024
@foone and this is why I don't use snap, flatpak, etc., or distros that want you to use them.
Show threadLuna LacteaOct 7, 2024
@mcgrew @foone Flatpak is actually pretty ok, it doesn't care what your distro is & the sandboxing is nice, I like how it lets you manage permissions for a package similar to Android apps too. Sandboxing can also cause problems if you need it to not be sandboxed, but it seems like most of the time there's also another package format available for the same program.
Show threadmcgrewOct 7, 2024

@jackemled that's fine if that's what you want. I'd prefer apps to be managed by the system package manager. The way I see it if I need to worry about the app permissions then I don't trust that app and I probably shouldn't be installing it.

Generally if the package isn't available on my distro then I build my own package and install it. But that's rare on Arch. Almost everything is at least in the AUR.

Show threadLuna Lactea
@mcgrew Yeah exactly.
Oct 7, 2024 at 5:19amWeb