asieApr 5
https://s3kshun8.games/blog/flatpak-won/

This should be mandatory reading for everyone invested in the Linux ecosystem, whether you leave feeling heard by or enraged by the author.
Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems

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@asie

As a penguin, I was exposed early on to the ideas of Stallman. I respect and agree with what he believes in.

fossbro, opinion discarded /s

i think the author fails to actually touch on the core of any of the issues he’s writing about :/

while Flatpak users across the ecosystem and on all distributions casually download things off the Discover store, expect them to Just Work, and actually that’s exactly what happens every single time.

HALF OF THE TIME I DOWNLOAD SHIT FROM FLATPAK IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK. not to even mention how much it sucks ASS for console applications. like, sure, i don’t want to erase the author’s experience, i bet it works okay for his userbase, but he’s generalizing.

also the casual hate on nix, explaining issues you’d never face unless you explicitly decided to start using nixos. what the fuck man

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i think his position in that regard is coming from that of a software maintainer. if my opinion on NixOS was based solely on the disappointment in users' faces when I told them "haha, good luck" when asked about how to make Wonderful Toolchain run on it, i would have a pretty low opinion of it as well

I remember when some software projects banned bug reports from Gentoo because the combination of USEFLAGS, unusual configurations, and tinkering-happy users made it impossible to reproduce anything
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@[email protected] (yes yes I know NixOS solves exactly the problem of it being impossible to reproduce anything)
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@[email protected] (also someone did make Wonderful Toolchain run on Nix!

https://github.com/pgattic/blocksds-nix/blob/master/flake.nix

well BlocksDS but I wouldn't mind someone adapting it to do the WonderSwan part)
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