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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by littlestymaar on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:33AM (#34921556)
> How many different versions of OpenSSL are running on my laptop right now? Who can say? That's the beauty of flatpak

And how many of them are critically out of date because the software maintainer didn't update? Who can say? That's the beauty of flatpack (not).

With flatpack you have all the downside of static linking with none of its advantages, how exciting. (and there's nothing as cool as having 7 full linux distros installed on your computer at once, just because software can't agree on which base image to use)

Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by bandrami on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:25AM (#34923403)
I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that the sarcasm of my comment wasn't apparent to everyone.
Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by littlestymaar on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:21AM (#34923748)
Poe's law strikes again.