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Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
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lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.
thankfully arch isn't getting into this nonsense
Worse than that, the issue the article states isn't that it's a flat pack, it's that fedora is pushing their rebuilt flat pack of obs that's buggy instead of the official obs one from flat hub that works, and then the obs project is getting bug reports for a third party distribution that's broken.
Because fedora isn't just pushing flat packs, they're pushing made by fedora versions of them instead of the official builds from the maintainers.
Having distro-specific flatpaks really seems to be defeating the whole purpose
It’s not distro specific. Fedora Flatpaks are just built from Fedora RPMs, but they work on all distros.
If you care about FOSS spirit, security, and a higher packaging standard, then Fedora Flatpaks may be of interest.
If you want a package that just works, then Flathub may be of interest. But those packages may be using EOL runtimes and may include vendored dependencies that have security issues.
I prefer flatpaks that work.
And that’s a perfectly fine position to have. I get most of my apps from Flathub.
I also think that Fedora Flatpaks should be allowed to exist. And most of them work without issues. They just don’t get as much testing as Flathub since the user base is smaller.
And that's a very good answer to a provocative message.
Fedora has always been one of the flatpak friendly distros.
No, it’s not like snap. Fedora is not removing RPMs and replacing them with flatpaks. It just defaults to flatpaks. Fedora Flatpaks are built entirely from existing RPMs.
interesting... ive not seen anything regarding snaps in mint... flatpak is the other option in the software manager
Mint explicitly goes out of its way to disable snap in favour of flatpaks.
https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
The Mint team removed snap intentionally and explain their reasons here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906
cool, thanks for the info!
And that's the #1 reason to use Mint over Ubuntu!
Snaps make a little more sense in servers since you can package CLI stuff in snaps, but not in flatpaks. For GUI apps, it's "fine" but it doesn't solve new problems, and the way Canonical has migrated apt packages to snaps is aggressive and error-prone.
very interesting. i use mint as a default workstation and i put it on a lot of older machines for older people as a windows upgrade. it just seems to work except for a very occasional audio issue.