Post #2747736

2026-05-21 22:01 UTC

a solution to a problem most people don’t have I’d say the timeless problem of “I just want to run this app, why doesn’t it work” is solved with Flatpak. People who can compile software themselves are the exception, not the norm. For an average user, an app store that “just works” is great. And for a developer, only being required to target one common runtime simplifies things.

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@ms_lane@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 06:57

No it isn’t, since Flatpak itself has a huge amount of upkeep and won’t ever play with your other apps. AppImage solves the problem “I just want a .exe that runs” - flatpak tries to turn every distro in a Redhat/systemd owned mess.

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@dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2026-05-22 09:58

one common runtime The year is 2XXX. The one common runtime to run them all is within reach… we all just need to use XXXXXXXXXXXX. Scratch that, we’ve just built XXXXXXXXXX. Hang on, scratch that… we’re now all doing something different. Just a throw away comment, but as a user I do avoid flatpaks. It takes forever to install anything and it’s just absurdly ugly in design. The benefit is… ? I genuinely don’t know. The people who want software to just run, whilst having no understanding of a computer are actively being herded towards entirely different ecosystems by capital. They’re already patrons of businesses. Capital spends a portion to ensure they stay patrons. No one is paying advertisers to advertise GNU+linux. No one is paying OEMs to ship GNU+linux. No one is lobbying governments to entrench GNU+linux into organisations. Those that want it to ‘just run’ on a unix derivative are probably a very queer minority. I am absolutely acrid towards computer users. Look, it’s just like the app store! Just press this button and it will work! That’s all software: press the correct button and it will work. Users don’t give a fuck. Libre software will never entice users like commercial software does because only commercial software can pay for users. Capitalism & software on a comment about flatpak’s removed design and the common runtime to rule them all. I’m getting lost; what’s new. Does flatpak actually have any momentum? AppImage? I genuinely don’t know.

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@Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-22 19:43

Half the requests for help on this community are people installing outdated flatpacks or messing up some configuration giving insufficient permission to some app or another. It does not just work. You know what just work? apt on debian.

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