FengLengshun

> Honestly at this stage, this stuff starts to feel like FUD.

I understand how you feel, now that I use Wayland everywhere myself. But I still remember when some things I used has issues and I have a whole list of a dozen of them.

Even now, using Wayland involves a LOT of compromise on my part. I'd have to stop my anger at CSD and issues with Global Menu a lot out of tiredness (still annoying - I have to run OBS in xwayland temporarily to access its remux menu). I have to contend with not having unattended remote desktop for my Linux devices. And I have to manually change how I set up fcitx5 instead of just setting it up in three lines in Home-Manager.

It's full of annoyances, but I'm tolerating it. Others... probably just don't have the patience, especially the devs who are supposed to fix these things for their app when they just want to focus on other things (especially multiplatform devs).

This sounds nice. Since it is incorporated to the Brave Shield, it should be synced across browsers, I think? That would solve the major issue blocking me from using Cookies Auto Delete -- I would have stuff added on one device, then I forgot to export it to my synced folder to import on another device, and I start to lose track about which stuff aren't on which device's list yet.

Brave being able to sync my no JavaScript, block Image, and block Cookies list is why I'm basically "locked-in" to Brave. I don't like its crypto stuff, but I don't see any of the other incorporating as many accessible privacy options that syncs across device as Brave does. I really wish Firefox, or even Vivaldi, would do it because I really don't like the crypto stuff, but I really like almost everything else Brave does.

This is being worked on by SnowflakeOS: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/snowflakeos-creating-a-gui-foc... https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center

Yeah, which is why a lot of people in immutable distro uses distrobox. And now, it seems, Nix as well.

From my testing it seems to integrate well enough. Mind, I'm still only dipping my toes to Nix on Vanilla OS for now, but I could install `git` and I could run `git` directly without `flatpak run` and the likes.

Optional dependencies seems to be an issue, though, as I needed to figure out what on my own I need to get thumbnails on Dolphin working correctly, but I might still be missing something that I'm supposed to do in this case.

As for portability, it seems doable with home-manager: https://julianhofer.eu/blog/01-silverblue-nix/#home-manager (itsfoss also have a pretty good NixOS guide that will cover home-manager as well).

Flatpak is the reason why people who only used Linux because of Steam Deck can just install the app from the app store, and it works well enough.

And it's actually pretty cool that Flatpak keep improving, even in the past few years. It's not improving as fast as I'd like (I want VPN apps, Lutris controlling emulators, and Native Host Messaging to be working already) but a lot of issues are being worked on and these days they work well enough.

I still prefer to use AUR if I could access it there, and some of the things I do are only available distro-agnostically through Nix or arch distrobox, but Flatpak is absolutely great when it's available and the sandbox isn't in the way.

...is it just me, or is the site broken? The link didn't display correctly and it shows as the raw markdown instead of the formatted result (checked with both Brave and Firefox, in private windows in case it's some extension).

Is that just how the site is?

It's very distracting regardless.

I think devs can use Gtk if they're developing for Linux or don't mind using pyGtk for multi-platform, use Qt or Flutter otherwise if they're going multi-platform, make sure everything follows freedesktop specifications, and then just pack it to Flatpak, test it for Gnome and KDE... then just tell everyone whose DE doesn't support it to just deal with it.

Heck, many apps are web-based and uses electron anyways, and those are generally multiplatform anyways.

I think if whatever app they make/port worrks via Flatpak, it should work on all/most modern distro.

I don't disagree, which is why I use KDE, as it is trivial to get it to look and behave like macOS and do so stably. Probably why many KDE distro that aren't following KDE's defaults use it too (Garuda Linux, XeroLinux, FerenOS)

I think Linux DEs are fine, it's just that the default config / on-boarding rarely asks what the user wants and what they need.

More distro/DEs need to incorporate UX/Desktop Layout Switcher, like Ubuntu Budgie, Zorin OS (Gnome, XFCE), Manjaro (Gnome, there are plans to do KDE as well in the forum?), and FerenOS. It'll solve the issues of personal preference in UX, as people could just one-click choose what feels/looks the best for them.

I personally don't mind taking a few hours setting up the UX I want with Fedora KDE, but I doubt most others do.

> if they support being installed to a different path than the default.

There is an AppImage version if you want that. Also have snap, .deb, AUR, and dnf install options, from what I saw on their Installation page.

It used to be AppImage that they push until after some discussion makes them push Flatpak version more.