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aborsy 3 days ago

Desktop apps: PDF viewer, office applications, playing video and audio, IDEs or editors at least, …

If they support flatpaks, it might be good enough.

righthand 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

They have all of that. Flatpack is not a thing in Unix and you wouldn’t want it. If you want the terribleness of Flatpack stay on Linux. This post is about self-hosting not Desktop software.

aborsy 3 days ago | parent [-]

Flatpaks, from the source if available, are excellent: you get the latest versions of the app from the official source, with permissions set for a pretty locked-down sandbox.

What’s not to like, I’m curious?

The storage is cheap these days, if you consider downloads are large. Core apps are robust.

Gud 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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