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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by input_sh on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:20PM (#34917432)
> and I think it actually has a shot of being an equivalent to the Mac App Store.

This I agree with, but not this:

> and does actually do a good job of making "one package manager to rule them all".

That's not its goal. There are no terminal apps in it, so everyone that wants to run custom packages from a terminal is still going to need something like apt/dnf/homebrew.

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by tombert on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:14PM (#34918166)
Maybe I'm speaking a bit too broadly; at least in regards to GUI apps, it's been a pretty nice "unifying force" for me when I ran Linux (which has admittedly hasn't been a few years now).
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by zitsarethecure on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:28AM (#34924256)
Is there an actual technical limitation or just because of the binary naming convention? I ask because some of the flatpak apps I have installed I almost always run via the command line by putting "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin" in my path and aliasing to the long name, ie: "alias evince=org.gnome.Evince" and they seem to work fine.
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