If there's one thing you can always count on in the Linux world it's that packaging can be a nightmare. The OBS Studio team are not happy with the Fedora folks due to Flatpak problems and threatened legal action.
  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not surprised that the OBS devs are considering suing Fedora for their Fedora Flatpaks.

    For anyone out of the loop:
    Fedora’s been packaging and providing apps as Fedora Flatpaks which cause users trouble cause they’re honestly pretty shit and known to be unreliable. The issue is that users assume that these faulty packages are provided by the Original Devs and complain towards the ODevs.

    As endless waves of users complain towards the ODevs it causes them unnecessary headache as well as costing valuable time and resources to tell users that it’s actually Fedora fucking things for everyone.

    All of this is unnecessary because if Fedora stopped installing Fedora Flatpaks as the default then there wouldn’t be this problem in the first place.

    • simple@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Wait, why is Fedora making their own flatpaks? I thought the entire point is that they work on any distro and everybody gets the original source from flathub.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        IMO, same reason they have their own repo, which eventually feeds into Red Hat enterprise, to have a trustworthy, curated set of safe (ish) software that’s had eyeballs on it. A worthy enough goal, but that said, it applies a lot less to flatpaks. I personally used to remove theirs because I didn’t like having multiple sources, now I’m on Bazzite which ships with flathub.