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@tusharhero mostly it just sounded funny. but i don't like flatpak at all for several reasons and flathub posting about its download metrics (which it fails to mention are largely from gamers (which is fine but kind of significant)) kicked off a negative train of thought is all
@hipsterelectron I kind of feel like "switch to Linux" has been going in the wrong direction if the goal was bringing free software to more people. The statistics show a lot of non-free software. So what we have done is making people change the operating system to a mostly free one, and just brought them their nonfree programs through these various channels. I really think the better approach would have been replacing one proprietary software with free alternatives, one at a time, and then finally they could switch to a mostly free opeating system themselves (sadly very hard to run a completely free system nowadays).
@tusharhero i don't think flatpak is at all interested in freedom and i have a grudge on several people involved in it
@tusharhero i'm interested more in keeping developers away from reliance upon external infrastructure they can't control, and flatpak's incredibly invasive control over the build process epitomizes that
@hipsterelectron I am not familiar with flatpaks. How ar erhey different from regular package repositories?
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@tusharhero right now imo the biggest threat to freedom from the rust language is its reliance on github actions, hence my goal to rewrite the build system to enable bootstrapping. this doesn't conflict with your analysis but it's a separate angle of attack
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@hipsterelectron Oh well, I guess it is "convenience" that they like.
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