Mastodawn

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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dmi 💽 Apr 5

@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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LMR 🇦🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️

@domi @asie for me, flatpak is just the second choice if the native package doesn't work. as someone who rices their everything, having something that ignores most env variables and systemwide configs is somewhat useful for those cases, but equally annoying for daily use. but more often than not, the flatpak one doesn't work either (usually for unrelated, unique flatpak reasons)

and all that after I spent many days trying to get into flatpak because I like the idea in theory, and the execution is at least better than canonical's snap… I still can't get myself to like flatpak. It's just too flakey, ironically