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  • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's your opinion on Snap/Flatpak, and why?
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    1 year ago

    pretty unpopular opinion i believe, but i loathe them. they feel like installing apps from the windows store, but worse. i use them on steam deck and my laptop, but they often fail to launch with no feedback[1], won’t accept drag&dropped files, store their dotfiles in weird places, take up much more disc space (and therefore take literally almost 10x as long to download), won’t inherit the theme (i think because plasma stores the gtk theme in a non-standard place), etc. they feel like they’ve been designed to flout what os developers have built up over many decades and are just a struggle to use.


    1. on steam deck particularly (so i know it’s not a configuration i’ve screwed up) no flatpaks will launch unless i launch them twice. even after that, there’s a long delay (~1 minute) and then two instances launch. i know this sounds like i should just wait until the first one launches, but that doesn’t work ↩︎







  • i agree with almost all of this, but i just want to say:

    How in windows 10 can I tell if a window has focus or not? In Win 3.1 to 7 and anything running on Linux it was easy: the title bar colour was different. But since Win 8 that was dropped, windows still have focus and modal dialogs but you, the user, can not determine which has what and when.

    if you tick “show accent colour on titlebars”, windows does draw the current window titlebar distinctly coloured (so i guess it’s actually better than gnome in that sense)

    win10 win11
    showing that it's clear which window has focus










  • idea: let each instance have a prepopulated blocklist

    let the admins of each instance have a list of blocked users that gets inherited to members of that instance, but let users remove from that list as well as add to avoid abuse. and don’t hide the comments from these users, just collapse them to let people know a comment has been hidden in case of mistakes

    (possibly even allow regex to avoid RandomWord1234, which was common on reddit)

    this is a rather extreme tactic though, only for if spam becomes overwhelming