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JRaccoon, 9 days ago to linux in Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads

Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

JRaccoon, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to linux in Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don’t know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn’t that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

JRaccoon, 10 days ago to linux in Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads

Sorry to ask, I’m not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I’ve seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what’s all the noice about? It’s some kind of cross-distro “app store” thingy?

JRaccoon, 3 months ago to world in High Court orders temporary suspension of Telegram's services in Spain

Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them

JRaccoon, 5 months ago to games in Portal: Revolution is out now (mod)

So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years

JRaccoon, 1 year ago to gaming in Does anyone else sometimes feel overwhelmed by (big) games?

The quest log tends to remind me of my ticket backlog at work.

Yes, absolutely this. New quests/tickets just keep coming faster than you can complete them…