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3 months agoThe project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.
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Look, Flatpak does, and it’s secure. You can spread misinformation if you like but don’t be proud of it.
You clearly have no capacity to accept new information in good faith.
2·9 months ago“This looks like a higher budget rip-off of The Long Drive.” Seems like that was mostly correct except for some reason PD has a time limit, which is kind of a bad move for this genre IMO.
As far as I can tell they are just different games in different genres.
PD is structured differently, you do short missions where you collect resources and explore in new areas while avoiding hazards, then return to a hub to do management. It’s often said to be a survival game which is pretty accurate.
… I assumed you knew the basics.
Flatpak uses ostree for all data. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/under-the-hood.html
I’m disappointed you criticize the project so harshly with no knowledge of it.
I’ve really enjoyed my first day with it. The performance on the PS5 isn’t the best though, was rough on the eyes.
https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/man/ostree.html - GPG verification section
The repo is gpg signed. I don’t know why you think thats not sufficient.
“packages” don’t exist like traditional distros. Its a large repo of data.
1·9 months agoChromeOS has a full Linux VM. Maybe schools disable it though.
This can be true and still irrelevant. It’s a free git repo host. Binaries are not its main purpose and random users complaints don’t matter.
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A modern desktop? Probably not. It expects working modernish OpenGL and software rendering would be too slow.
Something very basic, likely somewhat functional.
My point was 23 years is forever in software.
Try making an app that runs on 23 year old Linux (GTK1 \o/). The fact anybody still uses XP in any context is insane.
You mean it already does. (“should” can be vague)
They are only aliases too. People will be disappointed if they expect it to behave like the unsandboxed command.
Compression often improves performance as it means reading less data from storage. Deduplication, as flatpak uses it, is free.
It is actually. Add /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin to PATH.
Flatpak has no relation at all to systemd.
It likely just didn’t have permissions.
My view is that if the goal was to effectively make good software they wouldn’t start from scratch.
If they used wlroots the desktop would be usable today with a good feature set.
If they used Qt or GTK they would have feature rich well supported software. (GTK4 could have been an improvement for them, it’s designed around being minimal and having platform libraries implement design choices)
They didn’t take a practical approach imo. You could argue its a long term investment but because of it it’s probably years off of feature parity. The only upside today is… it’s written in Rust.