My bad, I didn’t emphasize the Your-way-is-perfectly-fine-part at all and focused more on underlining how it doesn’t work for everyone which made it look like I was completely opposed to you.

I wanted to say that both ways, flatpak/snap/appimage and self packaging / user repos are perfectly fine in their ways. The first may be more targeted towards newbies and people who do not want to hassle around with dependencies and the latter is for the more experimental kind of person.

If it works for you and you are happy then there is no reason to change anything. Having the freedom to decide how our OS should be is what drove most of us to Linux in the first place.

In that regard I fully agree with you and especially with “Do what you want, this is just my personal preference.”

This may be true from your perspective but won’t sway over many newbies / plebs who don’t have the knowledge (yet) or who simply do not have or want to take the time for self packaging.

And flatpak, snap and appimage tend to become the standard to get verified, tried and tested software hosted & supported by the official maintainers or the company behind the software.

Now to the personal part:

There was a time when I was motivated enough to get packages from user repos - I actually never was motivated enough to do self packaging so maybe I have missed something world changing - but I got so tired of having to figure out the missing “optional” dependencies that meant the software wasn’t working as expected and having to trust 3rd party maintainers when most stuff on flathub was “install & ready” and officially supported or at least hosted by a “verified” source. And maybe distro xyz has a mindblowing solution to all my problems but for the moment I am happy with what I have and not looking for yet another distrohopping and yet another point was whilst distrohopping it was soo easy that I could use the same install.sh containing all my favourite flatpak apps & the “applications” folder containing my favourite appimages no matter if I was on a Debian, RedHat, Arch, … based distribution.

Try to defend yourself and leave when your opponent is a fucking yandere that is armed with two rifles one of which you gave to them because in exchange they promised they would never hurt you or take anything from you by force.

Well you are indeed lucky enough the yandere only threatens to shoot you or your friends and for the moment only fights with a long sword whilst all you have is a kitchen knife and a dagger your friends gave you.

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands 👏👏

Hehe, that was the plan all along ;)

I feel honored \(^-^)/

One emoji is fine.

Two if you want to underline your reaction.

Three is the maximum allowed by the cringe police.

After three according to the judgement of the Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale you belong to the Facebook boomer jail. Enjoy the nationalist/racist/sexist/lame minion “memes”.

When I see more than three laughing emojis a sitcom laughter is automatically playing in my head. It feels like being forced to laugh at gunpoint.

I am wondering, what is enjoyable about Windows/Microsoft?

The slow & buggy UI?

The blue screens due to crappy drivers or bc they fucked something up?

The way they erase any customisability, essentially forcing their users to adapt their vision of how a computer should be operated?

How they are coming up with great ideas such as taking system snapshots and having AI analyze them?

The updates that randomly decide to install and then take an eternity with the end user not being able to use their PC whilst an update is taking place?

The 10.000 different ways of updating software?

How they are blatantly ripping off features whilst marketing them as their own ideas?

The way they are turning it more and more into an advertising platform for their own products?

The $139.00 license fee for everything I just mentioned?

Like, the only enjoyable thing I can think of is software availability but thanks to WINE / Proton this advantage is becoming less and less relevant.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

Live footage of the cat & mouse vibing

True, I use those too ^^

Lol, I always used it for “somehow” :')

smh = iwie (irgendwie)

How r u = wg (wie geht’s)

somebody = jmd (jemand)

Shut up = hdf (Halt die Fresse)

probs = wsl (wahrscheinlich)

idk = kp (kein Plan)

kp could also be “kein Problem” (no problem) which is why I personally prefer idk / np over kp / kp

Ah, thx for the explanation :)

Flatpak was designed to be decentralised, Flathub is just the main repository offering flatpaks and yes, probably 99% of all Flatpak applications are downloaded via the main repo but it is technically possible to just launch your own if you are unhappy with the main repo. The Flatpak team literally has this info page for hosting a repository

I for example, am taking AAGL from their own flatpak repo because they are not offering their launcher via the main one (even tho they also tell you to link the main repo - I guess for dependency reasons - but theoretically you could open your own repo and throw all dependency related packages in there or am I getting something wrong here)

Positive news: at least Germany will reject it, let’s hope more members follow their lead

According to [German Federal Minister of the Interior] Nancy Faeser, it is appropriate to “hold online platforms accountable so that depictions of abuse are discovered, deleted and the perpetrators prosecuted”. However, if the current proposal remains, the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany would have to vote no, said the SPD politician. "Because we must take targeted action and maintain the balance of the rule of law. Encrypted private communications of millions of people must not be monitored without cause.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-Germany-will-vote-against-current-proposal-9770051.html

gambling professional investments with likely Apartheid well earned family money

Oh oh, and stock market manipulation (multiple times)

Well, you can’t cheat if you can’t do anything

Thx for sharing your story :3

Tysm for sharing your story :D