It should get rid of its odd "flatpak run" launch scheme as the default, like Snap did. It will basically extend its reach to CLI and server apps, and just might become THE standard for Linux software distribution method. I'd be happy if it will.
@tennoseremel It's funny because it doesn't address the core problem:
There are too many package formats, and repository trees, and none is actually "The Way". That makes Linux software packaging a nightmare.
And ZIP is just literally the Windows 98 way.
You are not looking at this from the developer's perspective. Suppose, I'm a developer for Windows and Mac, and I'm often requested to to make a Linux version of my app. Except... I can't. Because there's no "linux" way of doing this. There's "DEB package" (of Debian OR Ubuntu variety, they are not always compatible), there's "RPM package", there's "PKG package"... Well, I'm NOT going to read into all this just to maybe target the 3% of desktop users. Or maybe I'll just release for Ubuntu, because I heard Ubuntu is kinda popular.
We're in the situation where some standard is literally infinitely better than no standard, because the lack of standard is what's holding us back.
As for overengineered - well, we brought this onto ourselves - by having no standards, ironically. The distros won't ever agree on the structure of the OS? Well, if you can't bring a mountain to a man, you have to bring a man to a mountain.
If you want to bring order into a disordered system, you have to engineer for every contigency.
The plan is to run on every distro. How do you cover every distro?
So this is actually the least overengineered solution, it could be way, WAY worse.
@akhil а мне вот не нравится это идиотское разделение на "десктопный Линукс" и "серверный Линукс", это дурь какая-то.
Одной и той же системе пакетов/контейнеров ничего не мешает поддерживать и десктопные порталы, и файловые сокеты, и сетевые порты (которые можно открывать через те же порталы, кстати - непонятно, почему они только десктопные).
А вендорлоченный snap вообще ни на что не годится. Если бы там не было вендор-лока, еще можно было бы поговорить, а так - говна-пирога.
@drq
Также когда я пытаюсь с Flatpak что-то скачать, то у меня важные компоненты с низкой скоростью загружаются, хотя инет у меня довольно быстрый и стабильный
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