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I'm gonna be honest I've never had a flatpak version of something ever work properly.
There was even one popular media player that only came in flatpak form or otherwise build from source.
So obviously, for no reason at all, it barely functioned compared to other applications I had already tried.
Congrats to you people put there somehow running things like Steam with no problems lmao.
I’m gonna be honest I’ve never had a flatpak version of something ever work properly.
As someone once involved with OS Security, I beg you not to use FlatPaks.
The tone here is surprisingly negative. Personally I'm happy with the efforts of the Flathub team 🤷
For me on Arch, Flatpaks are kinda useless. I can maybe see the appeal for other distros but Arch already has up-to-date versions of everything and anything that's missing from the main repos is in the AUR.
I also don't like how it's a separate package manager, they take up more space, and to run things from the CLI it's flatpak run com.website.Something instead of just something. It's super cumbersome compared to using normal packages.
Great opportunity to inject malware to so many vulnerable peeps then
You could say that with any program distribution. At least flatpaks are containerised.
Nah. Most distro package managers verify their packages authenticity with cryptography since the early noughts
It is noteworthy that builds of Chrome, VLC, Dolphin, Steam and Spotify are created by third-party enthusiasts not associated with the main projects.
What great news, that's why there is no trust in Flathub.
Still not as good as native package
Crazy, how our "free world" is centralized
Touche. Centralized and un-mirrorable.
Unmirrorable? The whole thing, including the configs are open source?
Unmirrorable
Yes, unlike apt repositories, it wasn't designed to be mirrored around, run isolated servers etc.
Flatpak was designed to be decentralised, Flathub is just the main repository offering flatpaks and yes, probably 99% of all Flatpak applications are downloaded via the main repo but it is technically possible to just launch your own if you are unhappy with the main repo. The Flatpak team literally has this info page for hosting a repository
I for example, am taking AAGL from their own flatpak repo because they are not offering their launcher via the main one (even tho they also tell you to link the main repo - I guess for dependency reasons - but theoretically you could open your own repo and throw all dependency related packages in there or am I getting something wrong here)
Google is better at advertising anyways. No sane being has ever heard of flathub. Qndroid has billion downloads every week.