Your immutable distro will not be tailored to your hardware by a team of qualified and paid engineers. I’m not entirely sure why the heck do you think immutability is the differentiating factor here.

Bite my shiny metal ass!

Last time I installed slack through flatpack I couldn’t send any files. Not through drag-and-drop, neither through the filepicker. The latter was just empty.

Downloading files from slack also had awfully weird side-effects.

Slack doesn’t have an apt repo, so I download debs and updat manually. Maybe once half-a-year.

If that’s the experience I’d get on my signal through flatpack, I’d also rather be downloading manually. And I’d even compile from source rather than deal with that flatpack stuff.

This is just so bad. I can’t use anything snap/flatpack cuz it simply won’t let me send a file. As it runs on it’s on file subsystem and doesn’t have access to anything else.

On the other hand, an app that has access to my entire hard-drive is awfully insecure, right? So, what’s the solution?

in the meantime they could include an option “I allow this app to acess my whole $HOME, thanks, I need it cuz I am a user not a security researcher”. Until then I’m not touching flatpack

Luckily for me, I’m on an Ubuntu derivative. So apt upgrade just does it. Sorry, OP, works for me in my preferred way, I don’t need any flatpacks. Let’s hope once they do one they keep building .debs nonetheless.

The heck are you all talking about? The post says Linux and Flatpack, while everyone somehow is discussing why signal is not on f-driod.

How the heck is this related?

you hit apt update and get an add for Ubuntu pro. Invasive ads in my linux? no thanks.

None of those people have a slightest clue. Your options really are: ubuntu vanilla and maybe pop os.

Everything else will very quickly require you to read through some obscure docs and bash your head against the terminal.

Vanilla Ubuntu, not kubuntu/xubuntu/whateverbuntu is the only polished and documented distro. After a year or two of that you’ll be ready to consider this “what distro” question.

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Because it’s an asinine practice from which windows is moving away through winget, and which made the open source community to write a package manager for mac from scratch – homebrew.

And if you think about it for a second, you will realize that it doesn’t exist on Android and iOS at all. E.g. 99% of users only install from a centralized repository called “appstore” and nobody is ever downloading an executable installer.

Basically, you’re uninformed, and blatantly defending your uneducated way of installing software.

No, you don’t. Bad advise. Use repos.

No, don’t. Bad advise. Use repos that are provided.

it’s just a removedin step by step guide on how to add their repo to the sources.list

What’s so technical about it? It’s how you install everything on Ubuntu.

No knowing how apt works, is equivalent to not understanding why grandma_pics.zip.exe is probably a virus. If you’re that uninformed, we can’t help you.

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why tf wouldn’t OP be better served by a provided repo? Literally a add it to the sources.list and never think about updates again.

bad advise, OP should use a repo if they have apt

edit: yes, I understand, one day I’ll get rooted by whoever hacked the VPN app’s servers

This is a troll, clearly. Purge this guy.

well, communities without participants is not Lemmy’s fault.

Although I do share the same experience. Euro communities are almost dead. Escooter community has like 5 members lol.

yeah. Own an Asus with Nvidia. Can confirm having the same experience.