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musicmatze , 2 years ago in Red Hat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, Flatpak to be official for Linux

Good news on one side (10k for OBS) and bad news on the other side. 😂

joojmachine , 2 years ago

Why bad news? It means that there’s an universal package with official support for every distro instead of them just supporting Debian/Ubuntu and everything else being just… kinda there and unnoficial.

musicmatze , 2 years ago

I am not in favour of these flatpacks/snaps or whatever these things are called. Packages should be distro packages, always. And the vendor of the software should never be responsible of packaging, thats literally the job of the distribution.

TheAnonymouseJoker , 2 years ago

You are ignorant due to assuming Flatpaks are same as Snaps or AppImages. Flatpaks are incredible. AppImages are next. Snaps are worst.

ChinaNumberOne , 2 years ago in Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux

Ideology over functionality

imagine actually thinking this is a bad thing, i’d take ideology over functionality anytime possible

milo128 , 6 months ago

if you’d read it you’d see the author has no problem with people who choose ideology over functionality, only people that try to force others to.

birokop , 2 years ago in Gnu Guix System Review

Isn’t this missing the entire point of guix?

fishinthecalculator , 2 years ago

You mean reproducibility and bootstrappability?

adrianmalacoda , 2 years ago

Being a free software GNU distribution is also the point of Guix, and it’s part of what attracted me to it (although its practical abilities are nice as well).

fishinthecalculator , 2 years ago

Yes I definitely agree: free software is also a requirement for bootstrappability and reproducibility.