Why do you use the male symbol?

flatpaks are the future

they have money on their side and vendor libraries

Meanwhile systemd wants to infect initrd.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LPC-2022-systemd-mkosi-initrd

*pretends to be shock*

Meanwhile the “problem” that flatpaks solve has been solved a long time ago with Nix.

and in a better way disk-space wise

you definitely don’t know what you’re talking about

i would say my only complaint about flatpaks is the fact that those runtimes collect cves like motherfuckers

I’ve been packaging for nix since 2014, probably wrote half the articles on emacs on their wiki. I think I have the right credentials to say that the solution that’s been out for a decade longer does a similar job

I’m biased, so I wont state that it does the job better

then you just don’t know all the problems flatpak solves

it’s not like i’m a huge fan of it, to be clear

but that’s the world we live in

I would argue that it is similar to a pro-systemd argument. No other init system quite does what systemd does.

systemd isn’t an init system

Flatpak isn’t a package manager

to be fair, neither is nix.

it kinda is. but even if it wasn’t it solves problems nothing else solves

unlike systemd that replaces other solutions

Nix solves the dependency hell problem.

Firejail solves sandboxing

yes, and none of them solves the packaging problem

neither does anything else

as i said

OK, enlighten me

The packaging problem is a little vague, could you explain which aspect are you referring to?

why do you use the male symbol?

so much

tfw your emoji font has no ligatures

to make linux systems commercially viable on the normal desktop market (including consumer market), there should be software desktop users need, available. for that there should be a platform that is at least somewhat uniform, for devs to package software for. also there should be infrastructure set up for paid apps too. flatpak solves, or is preparing to solve this problem (together with other somewhat rh projects like systemd and gnome)

i’d say linux (as desktop) be less like a frankenstein creation. the SO should be as a whole instead taking a piece of software here and there

i don’t know if linux per se. but a new approach could be really great

as much as i fucking hate the paradigm of “dev packages the software”, that’s what people need. it has to be implemented in a decent way tho, so linux (systemd-flatpak-gnome) platform doesn’t descend into second windows

i don’t like rust but redox-os looks promising

it’s called BSD