I don't know (and trust), what these web counters are really showing.
Not because they are rigged, but because the browsers themselves are rigged.

What does my Ubuntu pre-installed Firefox report?

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Ummm.... Why?

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Oh.
I'm really looking forward to the weekend...

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Well it looks great and all, but really, I'm sticking with (Linux native) X4:Foundations for now

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Boldosthe package is marked as *Verified developer* e.g. Microsoft, or JetBrains or Spotify

Coming Soon(TM) to Flathub, the about page of beta website now mentions "verified apps"
https://beta.flathub.org/about

Yes.
And this is great news; I'm glad that Flahub will have this too. Getting a bit closer to be on par with Snaps, so one more step for flatpaks to be more usable for me.

Anyway, we have this (basic, crucial) functionality with Snaps for how many years now?
Observe: They are following Canonical's footsteps. Yet again....

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Well, majority of the discussion so far is about the technology itself: how open or not open it is, how slow/fast it is, what can/cannot be run with it etc...

But I'm missing another typical use case topic in the discussion:
The "security/trust" level of "let me install the app I need for work" things. Especially when used "professionally" as a daily workload driver within a company.

And even if not necessarily directly visible, the >security< question of things is always floating somewhere around when OS and apps are installed and run inside a company network.

And - with regards to installing apps from external stores - this usually translates into certain level of "trust": When installing the app, I do/do not trust the source that it will most probably e.g. not install malware packed with it (unless intentional -> looking at you Google & Micro$oft... ). This applies especially when installing 3rd party apps, which are not usually generally available in standard official repos elsewhere (.NET SDK, Rider, Pycharm, Teams, Spotify, ...)

With Snaps, I *can* have that certain level of trust, because there is a trusted (by me) publisher verification authority (Canonical) working behind the scenes, so if the package is marked as *Verified developer* e.g. Microsoft, or JetBrains or Spotify, I trust it is really them and not that proverbial "some anonymous person somewhere in Nebraska" who packaged it on his/her PC and then published it to the store with whatever hacks attached inside.

In my opinion this critical topic is totally omitted with Flatpacks/Flathub.

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm not sure why Canonical doesn't want to have flatpak installed out of the box, but they sometimes do strange decisions, like Mir or Unity. Not bad projects but they were the only one using them and dropped them after some time.

I'm not sure why people keep bashing Canonical of doing "bad" or "strange" decisions/projects all the time.
Upstart was there before anyone even heard about that second weird thing called systemd. But it is Canonical who is the bad guy yet again for choosing their own path?

Oh c'mon...

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Quoting: sgtnasty369I have strong opinions on this topic, and found solace in Arch and Fedora.

Yeah, me too.
Happily sticking with Ubuntu.

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Hmmm... Reminds me of Cloudpunk, should finish it finally...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/746850/Cloudpunk/

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Oh boy, this looks amazing.
(Also: Crashes my AMD GPU driver every single time )

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