drawterm
flatpak
| drawterm | flatpak | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 431 | |
| 4 | 4,071 | |
| - | 1.4% | |
| 7.2 | 9.2 | |
| 30 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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drawterm
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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
Wayland is the poster child for a rewrite that tries to be 'simple' and in doing so over-complicates this by under specification. Other commenters have mentioned that usability extension issues but I wanted to discuss my experience as someone who maintains their own wayland client (for drawterm: https://github.com/9front/drawterm).
There are plenty of technical differences between how KDE, Gnome, and Wlroots that just cause more work for me. Perhaps most popularly Gnome is dying on the hill of "child size decorations", meaning that without mostly Gnome specific code you will get no title bar. KDE and Wlroots do upscaling different, KDE upscales with video in mind, Wlroots upscales with text in mind. There is no way to specify how a client would like this upscaling to be done, so to get consistent display you have to do the upscaling yourself. Some other minor annoyances include having to implement key repeat yourself, and no standard way for programs to cause a mouse movement.
Like this article mentions I use wayland because it's the "only game in town", but after porting drawterm I became fairly unimpressed with the technical design.
flatpak
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Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.
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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
No, it looks like you have to do it on an application basis.
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/2913
- how strong is the steam (runtime) sandbox for games?
- Flatpak 1.14.5 Released
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Been thinking of switching to linux but I am a noob
Flatpak
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 Nov 2023
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Flathub – The Linux App Store
> CLI tools do not implement auto-complete themselves. What you are seeing are auto-complete scripts for your shell that make network connections.
nit: This is incorrect. Robust auto-complete scripts call the actual program to provide completions.
That is what Flatpak does. It is Flatpak itself that makes the network connections.
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/main/completion/flat...
Not that it would make any differencen if it was implemented in Bash seeing as the Bash script is also provided by Flatpak.
- How to prevent/allow chrome from accessing network devices?
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Linux Phones (2022)
The only performance impact I know of is with the seccomp filter in CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4187
Skimming through the recent comments, there might be a way to optimize some of it.
What are some alternatives?
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
com.valvesoftware.Steam
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
protontricks - A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client