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Quoting: furaxhornyxNot sure about all this, but would this mean that Canonical may want to get rid of PPAs as well, one day, because they don't have near-total control over it ? :huh:

They already have or actually won't have to since PPAs were never installed by default. It's precisely the same situation as here: You actively have to add PPAs and you actively have to add flatpak support. (Even Google doesn't actively prevent you from installing alternative stores on your Android phone - it just has to be an explicit decision by the user.)

I'd absolutely agree if Ubuntu just deactivated all flatpak repos by default. No issue with that. But the software needs to be there and when a user clicks a .flatpak or .flatpakref in their browser, it should work - maybe with a warning, yet without searching the internet for a solution.

But IT HAS NEVER BEEN THERE. Using standard Ubuntu you always had to install flatpak support explicitly.

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Quoting: furaxhornyxNot sure about all this, but would this mean that Canonical may want to get rid of PPAs as well, one day, because they don't have near-total control over it ? :huh:

They already have or actually won't have to since PPAs were never installed by default. It's precisely the same situation as here: You actively have to add PPAs and you actively have to add flatpak support. (Even Google doesn't actively prevent you from installing alternative stores on your Android phone - it just has to be an explicit decision by the user.)

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Quoting: ZlopezI remember that in LTS they usually have really old version of flatpak, so some things didn't work as they should anyway.

I'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.

In a nutshell (yes I am simplifying): Unity came before Gnome Shell. Upstart came before systemd. Snap came before flatpak. Even Bazaar came before git (if just by a few days). And while Wayland came before Mir it still has issues 15 years after its inception. In other words: Canonical frequently addressed issues and provided solutions which were then succeeded by other (often better) alternatives. Still, the constant flaming is just tiring and often enough unfounded.

As for the topic at hand: Dropping OOTB flatpak support of Ubuntu spins is an absolute "non-issue" which is completely blown out of proportion. One can still do sudo apt install flatpak and every standard Ubuntu user had to do that for the past couple of years.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaDo you guys know of any good KDE-based distro, as close to Ubuntu as possible (since most native games are tested on it and I love Deb packaging / user-friendliness) but without Snap ?

Install Kubuntu and type
 
sudo apt purge snapd

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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...

Actually even snap is "kinda" older than flatpak. And Unity pretty much preceded Gnome Shell.

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Hardware Unboxed was - well - not really enthusiastic about the product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDxKQP1_FQ [External Link]

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An add-on for add-on for an add-on. Or actually an add-on for two other add-ons...

This is getting out of hand, kinda.

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I have yet to understand the usefulness of lighting with opaque keycaps...

(Apart from that I wouldn't like the cursor keys arrangement and the lack of a proper ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown block.)

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Quoting: ElectricPrismUbuntu has a paywall for their OS download

Erm... no. They ask for a donation along a "take me to downloads" link. That is not a paywall.

Quoting: ElectricPrismRedHat charges yearly licenses and the Linux Kernel doesn't flip out on them for it.

They charge for their service. Which also includes 24/7 support and guaranteed fixes and patches for up to 10 years. (Something SuSE or Canonical also do.)
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Quoting: LightkeyAh, Bridge Constructor (also released for Linux) developer from Germany, no surprises there. What's surprising is that LEGO/Thunderful Publishing went along with it, as it's their first Linux title. I wonder if ClockStone even mentioned it to them..

They are actually from Austria. Since they are from my hometown I am picky about that...

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