Welp, there goes the idea of (paid) indie games for that mobile platform. 😐 Given #Flathub works on a payment backend it would've been best for #LinuxPhone's as a whole to go that route instead of doing their own sandboxing around apk. #MobileLinux devices will never get out of the niche they're in that way even if the GUI is ever so fancy.
Couldn't find hard info regarding #mobian or #ubports about this. 😐
@Natanox you can add any flatpak repo you want (not only Flathub) which is done in a few seconds.
I hope pmOS doesn't add Flathub as default source and I don't want it to go out of niche if paid apps are a requirement for that. The most important thing about Linux mobile for me is the anticapitalist mentality. For me postmarketOS means a OS for the time where there are no markets anymore - probably not the official meaning.
For all other benefits LineageOS should be enough.
@DrRac27 "The most important thing about Linux mobile for me is the anticapitalist mentality" I get that, and 10-15 years younger me agrees. But sadly, this is not utopia, and money has not been abandonned despite being an illusion. I've seen to much FOSS burnout to find a fight against using money as a sign of appreciation for people that mostly get more or (often) less friendly bug reports that just add to to do lists reasonable.
(Sorry for being a sell-out ;-) ) @Natanox
@linmob@Natanox but does money really stop burnouts? In paid jobs people are burned out all the time and being dependend on the money is just another factor that contributes to overworking? Of course doing both paid and unpaid work at the same is the biggest risk which is probably why so many are burning out? I know the same from other activism (organizing demos/actions) where burnouts are a topic too. But they all seem to be students or paid workers, could that be the problem?
@Natanox I totally agree this should be a thing, my talk on the Linux Phone App Ecosystem had a slide - I suppose, one line on a slide was not enough! Decisions usually get re-visited at some point in time, and once Flathub actually has a payment infrastructure, the decision may go the other route.
BTW: Do you have a link/source for this? I would like to include it into the next weekly update :)
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