| ▲ | thangalin 20 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years ago, I wrote an on-screen display (OSD) in Java for showing keypresses and mouse clicks[1]. Someone thought a flatpack would be useful[2]. I didn't see the point. It meant: (a) maintaining two installation processes; (b) collating download stats from two sources; (c) trusting a third-party system to maintain package indexes over time[3]; (d) adding yet another package manager to a system that already has a package manager; and (e) bloating the repo with another repo. Years later, I still only see drawbacks. [1]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KmCaster [2]: https://github.com/flathub/com.whitemagicsoftware.kmcaster [3]: https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=kmcaster - whoops! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rbits 18 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The upsides would be - Easy use on immutable distros - The user doesn't have to make sure they have the right version of Java installed - Auto-updates even if there is no repo for your specific distro And also you can find it through searching on Flathub I guess | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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