Flatpak is what allowed me to distro hop while still using some great apps that were not in the distro repos
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Flathub is almost the perfect distribution system for software on Linux. The only thing it's missing is a billing system. If it had that, it would probably attract more game developers to make their games available as Flatpaks.
Paid apps are in the works right?
Yes.
This would be really great.
Commercial applications and a donations framework.
Ohh, for ez donations too!
Nice but weird that Lutris and Heroic are classified as a game unlike Steam which correctly is a game launcher
A lot of these appear to be game launchers to be honest
Good to see Space Cadet Pinball still there!
Funny 3 out of 12 are minecraft
I'm in love
how can I get my emulators to see the same files on Fedora after a reboot? I use Syncthing to keep my saves on a few machines, but after each reboot I have to go in and set the folders up because the user folder path has changed.
Otherwise flatpaks seem perfectly chill to me
There may be some fiddling you can do with Flatseal.
If only they weren't flatpaks. Ask a release engineer about importance of artifact validation and single source of truth if you don't know why that's a risk.
Im not in this field, but the risk is that flatpak can be distributed by anyone? But flathub provides validated Tag for entities provoding trustworthy flatpaks, no?