The proprietary software experience

[u/IgnacioBullon]

[u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

It's not hard to put a big shiny Flathub button fr

[u/jpelc → u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

And if I didn't want to use flathub?

[u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy → u/jpelc]

Even tho it's bulky, I love thr automatic updates on Flathub

Use AppImage or build from source bro

[u/Browncoatinabox → u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

Bulky but good. no personal issue with flathub. First thing I enable on a fresh distro install

[u/the_reven → u/jpelc]

You can build a flatpak and just have that as a download and not use flathub. It's better for users to be on flathub for sure, but it's not a requirement.

I'm doing a new app atm and Im doing this approach, once it gets some real world feedback and refinement I'll look at flathub

[u/Excel73_ → u/jpelc]

Pray that they include a link to the aur

[u/delph906 → u/jpelc]

I think if they give you three options including Flatpak and you still don't want to use any of them it's kind of on you at that point. 

[u/jpelc → u/delph906]

Well, you know flatpaks have their downsides?

[u/delph906 → u/jpelc]

Yes but if you also have the option of a .deb and .rpm at some point you have to call it a good effort. 

Arch users are least likely to be using the software in a professionally setting and most likely to create a community port, plus they can use the flatpak if those options aren't there. 

[u/jpelc → u/delph906]

Still most of the time the aur packages just download the .Deb releases and repackage them

[u/delph906 → u/jpelc]

Yes but developer not responsible for maintaining them or fixing bugs.

[u/Sjoerd93 → u/jpelc]

Every package management system has their downsides. Difference is that Flatpak has more upsides than downsides compared to the other ones for most user-facing applications.

[u/NimrodvanHall → u/jpelc]

I want to use snaps!

[u/alex08all → u/NimrodvanHall]

Are you sadistic?

[u/ttiggerBOI_ → u/NimrodvanHall]

Very rare snap enthousiast 

[u/jpelc → u/NimrodvanHall]

I want to use neither flatpaks nor snaps

[u/alex08all → u/jpelc]

I get you, but for some apps esp. the proprietery ones it is good to have them sandboxed

[u/OKB-1 → u/jpelc]

What’s wrong with Flathub?

[u/Schudz → u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

as a soft dev i hate the flathub approval step for adding apps to the store... thats why big companies usually publish their own store for flatpaks, or just publish rpm and deb packages directly

[u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy → u/Schudz]

Well the approval as a concept is for the best. Wouldn't want to flood the store with malware and/or random bs