Response to "Flatpak Is Not the Future"

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linux

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  • flatpak

    Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

    FWIW, I have also raised this problem to the issue tracker https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4151. The maintainer raised some good points too.

  • the openRGB Flatpak, where you have to manually place a file into /etc/dev/rules.d/ because there is no way to access hidraw nodes from within flatpak. (the Steam Flatpak has similar issues)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • xdg-desktop-portal

    Desktop integration portal

    the openRGB Flatpak, where you have to manually place a file into /etc/dev/rules.d/ because there is no way to access hidraw nodes from within flatpak. (the Steam Flatpak has similar issues)

  • dino

    Modern XMPP ("Jabber") Chat Client using GTK+/Vala (by dino)

    dino which needs access to the gpg-agent

  • KDiskMark

    A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros

    USB flashing applications like Balena Etcher and SpeedTest applications like KDiskMark which use PolKit to get higher privileges.

  • toolbox

    Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux (by containers)

    For IDEs, what people do right now, especially on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue, is use toolbx or Distrobox (it's like interacting and communicate with an IDE through a mutable distro, inside a container).

  • appimage-resources

    Companion repository for AppImage article on booleanworld.com

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • By default, Flatpak apps cannot read from xdg-config/gtk-3.0. Someone needs to provide that override out of the box on Plasma distros so that Flatpak GTK apps work as expected. FreeDesktop.org does not want to do it because they want a better mechanism to exist. And GNOME does not want to cooperate on making a better mechanism exist. GNOME being stalwart on their design vision does not make the problem go away. Other platforms have full color schemes. The two biggest GTK platforms forming an echo chamber to control the direction of FDO preferences doesn't change that.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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