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

Thank you for the context. I've been kind of out of the loop with Linux on general and have been using fedora... But now a question. What's the most stable form of package and which distros use it by default? I've been kind of confused my the whole all image, flatpack, etc thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Personally I'd recommend installing in this order:

    1. Packages from your distro's native repository.
    2. Flatpaks from Flathub (please avoid Fedora's Flatpaks).
    3. AppImages/Debs usually provided on the app developer's site.
    4. The Arch User Repository (AUR) if compatible.
    5. Tarballs.
    6. Ubuntu Snaps.
    7. Fedora Flatpaks.
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    There isn't one. It's still a shit show.

    The most reliable way to distribute software on Linux is still to make a statically linked binary (linking with a very old glibc is fine) and use curl | bash. But that isn't always possible depending on the language used and the app.

    Seems like OBS Studio is C++/Qt, so it shouldn't be too difficult though. I've done it before in the distant past. But looking at their releases they only provide .deb for Linux, so I can understand why people would want something else.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I've made several Qt apps (in C++) easily packaged using AppImage. Perhaps OBS is harder because they require some level of integration with the hardware (e.g. the virtual camera perhaps requires something WRT drivers, I don't know), but in the general case of a Qt app doing "normal GUI stuff" and "normal user stuff" is a piece of cake. To overcome the glibc problem, it's true that it's recommended using an old distro, but it's not a must. Depends on what you want to support.

    As a user, I prefer a native package, though (deb in my case).

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