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3np | karma 7507 | avg karma 2.22 · 2022-02-19 01:34:00

Could you be more specific about your issues with Flatpak? No idea what you’re talking about here.

1_player | karma 8196 | avg karma 4.61 · 2022-02-19 06:07:50

It's trolling of the "everything new in Linux is crap" type, just check their post history. Random data loss because one uses Flatpak, seriously?

smoldesu | karma 10042 | avg karma 1.14 · 2022-02-19 07:21:45

> Random data loss because one uses Flatpak, seriously?

I wish I was joking: https://twitter.com/planner_todo/status/1492084099875586049

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1_player | karma 8196 | avg karma 4.61 · 2022-02-19 07:29:45

Ah because of a bug in an app (or it's packaging), the whole flatpak ecosystem is corrupt and causes data loss? How is that different that someone mistakingly causing an rm -rf /home in an RPM post-install script?

Try again.

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smoldesu | karma 10042 | avg karma 1.14 · 2022-02-19 08:19:34

So now we're blaming developers for messing up with sandboxed systems? I really hope this isn't the rhetoric you use to convince people to start packaging with Flatpak...

3np | karma 7507 | avg karma 2.22 · 2022-02-22 02:18:23

You're the only one assigning blame to anyone here. Not all problems need a villain.

Both of these things can be true at the same time: The library authors ultimately messed it up and could have prevented it by reading documentation better. Flatpak has a footgun and could have prevented it by better dev UX and/or structuring docs differently.

Hopefully this incident is leading to improvements in both.

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