I hate windows as much as the next linux user but I have to admit windows has been very stable for me despite having uptimes in the months with my work laptop.
No Linux user is gonna go “perhaps your right, I should switch to windows for its stability”
You’ve had your work laptop run well for a few months with your on off daily usage. I’m sure there’s many ppl here with various distros running for years without a single reboot.
Personally I have one running as a mediaserver that hasn’t been offline in two years, and I’m sure that that’s young in this forum.
I don’t expect anyone to switch to windows, I’m just saying this myth about windows being unstable does not align with my experiences at all. I haven’t even seen a blue screen since windows 7. All the weird behavior I encountered was fixed by replacing hardware, and without reinstalling windows. Sure, linux might run even longer without rebooting, but saying windows can’t go past 2 days is just a gross exaggeration.
I literally turned on my work laptop yesterday and it blue screened on boot. (Win10). Didn’t even get an uptime of 5 minutes. Its not a myth that windows is unstable (in comparison with Linux and macOS).
And B. Take a joke, clearly my initial post is taking the piss. Windows is less stable than Linux, simply a fact. Hence the comment so people can have a laugh.
Lol how the fuck do you browse packages? Did they forget to add a link to “apps” or something to the top menu?
You have to keep scrolling down the front page and look at categories and maybe press “More Productivity” and you get to see the packages in that category. But you can’t browse all packages and you can’t get a list of all categories.
I’m not seeing any filters? If I press the search field I just get a prompt.
I saw there’s a slash sign in a square but I can’t figure out what it’s for. If I click it it dissapears, if I type “/” in the bar I get nothing.
Edit: so if you press the search button with nothing written you get to flathub.org/apps/search which is a somewhat more useful page. The default listing there is still garbage because it’s hard-limited to 1000 apps for some reason but there’s no pagination and no sorting(?). But at least you get a filter bar on the left so there’s that.
Also if you scroll aaaall the way down to the footer of the page there are some links to “collections” such as “trending” and shit. Which has pagination but no filters and no sorting. 😆 And the distinction between the “trending” and “popular” collections is left as an exercise for the user, I suppose.
It’s like it was designed by someone who’s never seen or used a package repository in their life.
Yeah, it really is more like google play store or shopping websites and similiar apps/websites (although there are some that have a better design I guess). I’m not really a fan of it either, but I guess people being used to those (which is probably the majority of the userbase of flatpak) feel more comfortable with it.
My guess with the difference between “trending” and “popular” is that the former means lots of recent downloads and the latter a lot of downloads in a longer timespan (e.g. a year or so)
It used to happen a lot. Havent had it for like 6 months and now its starting to happen again. Mostly with matrix.org users too. No idea what the issue is. Other server make no issues at all so far.
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