I just published a new version of Damask. It's been a while since I last released, so a whole pile of bug fixes and improvements are finally shipping! Take a look at the full list of changes[1]. It should be landing on Flathub soon[2].
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Using #Flatpak packages now for some time... and I have to say that there have been no issues at all 🙂
Currently running Signal and Element without any problems - updating is smooth sailing as well.
I should expect that though in the end.
In general: If something is external and I need it, I will be going the #AppImage and #Flatpak route.
hmmmm my beloved Tokodon cannot login in Flatpak version (packaged by Flathub) hmm... SSL error... actually not only mastodon.social got this issue, urusai.social, too, just a short video Tokodon alongside with logs
Gonna report this, since no-one reported it #Tokodon#Flatpak
Here's a Flatpak story: The other day, my best friend told me that he had switched to Linux! Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, a noble choice in my opinion. He's a smart guy, but he was having some issues that he couldn't figure out: Firefox' maximise and minimise buttons were missing, drag and drop from archives wasn't working, his selected theme wasn't applied everywhere, and many other small issues I can't remember now.
I tried reproducing his issues on my machine, but everything worked fine for me. We were confused. Is there missing libraries? We went through packages to find out what my system had that his didn't. It was weird, everything was kinda working, but the devil was always in the details, for every single app.
And then we found it: All those applications he had issues with were Flatpaks! He simply didn't pay attention when installing them through the Discover store. He didn't even know what Flatpak meant.
I helped him remove Flatpak from his system and install the system packages instead, and all issues were gone.
Man, Flatpaks suck. How does anyone prefer Flatpaks over system packages? How does anyone think this was a good idea? Stop trying to invent new things to solve old problems and instead go back and fix the problems.
Containers, Flatpak, Immutable distros, it's all wasted effort. There is no magical solution that will solve all our problems. The only way to solve all problems is by solving each problem individually one by one. And that is exactly what countless distribution and package maintainers are doing on your behalf every single day.
Flatpaks are really outrageous in size...I have tried to use flatpaks for the past months but man o man....hundreds of MB for each package, takes forever to update them even on my 1GB internet connection. The idea is great, but this is such a huge downside that I cannot see how it is going to make the flatpaks easier to use than normal packaging.
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