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Desktop is so far out... We still need to build everything over there. We don't even have a desktop-native signer right now.
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MichaelJ 1y ago

I've got some buddies in #GitCitadel working on .deb build processes so we can distribute our apps as Linux desktop apps.

The Age of the Desktop will return.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Wouldn't it be better to ship as flat packs?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

flatpak is already deprecated on ubuntu 24+

snap is the main format these days, debs are still ok

the move of linux towards trying to do app isolation like android is really not going anywhere, they should just put energy into putting android's app framework into linux and extending it a little to make the bundles binary instead of jars

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MichaelJ 1y ago

Probably depends on the use case. I'm still fairly new to this.

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of flatpaks?

FWIW, I've just switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and all the apps I've installed were debs or snaps.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Better sandboxing than native installs.

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Bruno Paz 1y ago

Desktop Linux is more than Ubuntu.

Flatpak can work everywhere.

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MichaelJ 1y ago

Tell me more? I'm still new to this.