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Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

cause they're honestly pretty shit and known to be unreliable.

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They have individual people maintaining over a thousand flatpacks.

    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.

    Additionally, if you go to install the real flatpack, Fedora pushes you to use their poorly-maintained unofficial one instead.

    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.

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