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Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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I'm not surprised that the OBS devs are considering suing Fedora for their Fedora Flatpaks.
For anyone out of the loop:
Fedora's been packaging and providing apps as Fedora Flatpaks which cause users trouble cause they're honestly pretty shit and known to be unreliable. The issue is that users assume that these faulty packages are provided by the Original Devs and complain towards the ODevs.
As endless waves of users complain towards the ODevs it causes them unnecessary headache as well as costing valuable time and resources to tell users that it's actually Fedora fucking things for everyone.
All of this is unnecessary because if Fedora stopped installing Fedora Flatpaks as the default then there wouldn't be this problem in the first place.
Can you elaborate here? I've had very few issues with Flatpaks and the documentation is pretty thorough. I'm curious what wider issues it has to make the whole ecosystem "pretty shit" and unreliable.
They have individual people maintaining over a thousand flatpacks. There's no time to test anything.
Additionally, if you go to install the real flatpack, Fedora pushes you to use their poorly-maintained unofficial one instead.
I don't believe this to be the case with Flathub, only the Fedora repo. I'm asking about the wider flatpak ecosystem, not the fedora-specific repo or how it's setup.
I'd agree that seems like a needless hoop at the very least, but my concern is more to do with the growing trend to shit on Flatpaks as an ecosystem, not just this particular instance of Fedora head-assery.
I think it's decent software and has really solid use-cases, far from unreliable shit at least in my own anecdotal experience. But my experience is limited, which was why I asked the OP to elaborate on actual flaws they see with the Flatpak ecosystem.
The Fedora flatpacks are pretty shit, not the overall concept.