Notices

1. Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 23:41:08 CEST Ludovic Courtès

   From https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.12.0:“The major changes in this series is the support for better control of sub-sandboxes, as used by the steam flatpak.”

   A reminder that #flatpak is not about user freedom.

   • dave (dthompson@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 23:41:06 CEST dave

     in reply to

     @civodul I don't see much use for flatpak other than providing a means for running proprietary apps. free software video games are a valid use-case due to their try-and-throw-away nature, but that's definitely not the main audience for flatpak.

   • dave (dthompson@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 23:41:07 CEST dave

     in reply to

     @civodul what's the implication here? I don't quite understand it.

   • Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 23:41:07 CEST Ludovic Courtès

     in reply to

     • dave

     @dthompson The “major changes” has to do with Steam support (the proprietary game platform).

     While flatpak is sold as “The Future of Apps on Linux”, it seems that part of the motivation is to make *proprietary* apps readily available, as illustrated by the logos at https://flatpak.org/.

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.