jbz2d ago

Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems | S3kshun8's Lair

｢ Most saddening of all is that the legitimate and valid communal focused ideology that the old guard purports to hold up - is actually being lived and expressed by the corporations those same people would argue are capturing the ecosystem ｣

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

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Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems

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Show threadMatt Campbell1d ago
@jbz @glyph I think this rant gives off more heat than light. It was triggered by, as I understand it, a heated reaction by an AppImage zealot. Where I think it goes wrong is in lumping AppImage fans and defenders of traditional distros (Debian, Arch, Gentoo, NixOS) together. 1/?
Show threadMatt Campbell1d ago
@jbz @glyph IMO, the salient difference between AppImage and the traditional distros is that the latter, including the package manager friction that frustrates app developers more accustomed to the proprietary platforms (I count myself in that category), serve to ensure that open-source software can in fact be rebuilt from source in a decentralized way, because all the distros that package a thing are routinely rebuilding it themselves (or, in the case of Gentoo, their users are).
Show threadGlyph
@matt @jbz I think the level of emotion going into this is itself somewhat illuminating, in that it points to a persistent, long-term, ongoing dysfunction in the relationship between distros and ISVs. I think the AppImage fan's rude message was the proximal trigger for this but there's clearly a LOT of pent-up frustration behind it
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