The title says it all. Browsed Flathub and saw this fat warning label on the Steam Flatpak. Maybe not the best idea if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore, but hey, what do I know 🤷

  • Cegorach@feddit.de
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    I don’t get what your point is.

    Should flathub remove the warning or proprietory software?

    And why do you think snapstore would be any better in that regard?

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    Can someone please help me out? I don’t get it

    This seems like the right way - informing users, those who don’t care don’t care with or without. I’d say that’s fully withing the freedom philosophy

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    1 year ago

    if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore

    says it all about your mindset, you think big numbers are good regardless of context, as if google play wasn’t enough of a warning for other distribution platforms

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    I was mildly annoyed the other day by a conceptually similar warning about some software I was installing from F-droid. The annoying part was that unlike this flathub one it wasn’t completely clear how exactly the app was using the dangerous features I was being warned about, but I had done my research and knew I wanted to install it anyway. Took me a moment to remember that for a lot of people it probably helps to be reminded of the risks.

    Then I went to install the same thing on someone else’s phone with Google Play. No warnings, but I had to scroll quite a long way down past ads for competitors and presumably malware-laden copies with confusingly similar names before finding the app whose name I’d typed in the search field.

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      Also, F-Droid recently committed to more transparency with their anti-features and many newer (and updated older) apps show a message about what the anti-feature actually entails on that particular app.

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      Agreed, even as a steam user. It’s a good reminder that you are installing gigabytes of instructions on your most personal device that you are specifically prohibited from vetting

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    I don’t really see the problem with this is, let’s be honest if you daily drive Linux you likely enjoy opensource software. You likely want other open source apps too and knowing is good. Yes I do run some proptarity apps like Steam and Discord but its neat to have other apps apps open source where I can.

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      op is making the opposite point, saying that companies making closed source software are going to be put off from putting their software on flathub, the clown face is there with the intent to portray flathub’s action as being naive and idiotic, arguing that not catering to such companies by not letting them distribute closed source software without telling it’s potential users is a bad thing

  • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    I’d say rule 2 of lemmy.ml being broken against you is 100% justified. Go lick someone else’s boot if you don’t like people being told that “Hey, this stuff ain’t free like some of the other software you are using. Including but not limited to the fucking operating system you’re on.”

    Also, get the fuck out with that capitalist mindset of required “competing” in a “market”. All of this is free and open for a reason and no one is selling you anything precisely because they have no profit incentive in mind. Linux pretty much used to be and fortunately still is it’s own thing built pretty much by the developers using it themselves, yet people like you come in requiring it to be a second Windows, like it needs to dominate the market right here, right now by adopting terrible ideas so it can “sell” better. Well I don’t want that, nor do I care for that.

    I want a quality operating system that works for the user first, and not the people trying to shovel me their new fancy expensive toys. If it’s proprietary, I’d like a big fucking disclaimer the size of Arizona so I can easily tell without having to dabble. So good on flatpack. I like that.

    And last, It’s not Linux that needs to grow. It’s the idea of Free Software that needs to.

  • Empathy [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    I love both proprietary software and open source software, and personally I kinda like this warning.

    How much of a concern it is for software’s code to be proprietary, is probably personal opinion. For this reason, maybe yellow is a bit too much? I think making these errors grayscale might be a good middle ground.

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    1 year ago

    compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore

    Did they introduce a way to sell software yet?