Babe wake up, new flathub frontend just dropped
Your comment got me thinking… Is this a big deal, or even a small deal?
I think it’s a deal of some proportion. If someone is trying out Linux for the first time and stumbles across how Flatpaks work and starts exploring Flathub, maybe their initial impression will be good enough to consider switching. If something appears to be polished, then maybe it is.
Actually- yeah.
Perception is reality; while hardcore nerds are willing to roll their own distributions, there’s a reason Ubuntu is damn popular. Most normal people want their computers to work, and to have an easy discoverable ecosystem.
So yeah. A Big deal
huge deal, software discoverability is one of the worst issues in linux rn.
KDE Discover? Surely looks better than whatever this is
I hope it will change software discoverability on linux for the better.
TurboWarp looks suspiciously like Scratch
Mod of Scratch 3 with a compiler, dark mode, addons, and more features.
Yes, on the website you just put the scratch url in and it compiles it to JavaScript
It’s basically just an improved alternative to phosphorus
@AdrianTheFrog oh that’s pretty cool. Old popular (& well made games) could be ported to an app using that
Just realized I’ve never used the flat hub website
I always check if the was packaged by the developer. I tend not to trust apps packaged by someone else.
I always check if the was packaged
the gnome app store shows the verified status of apps, im pretty sure the kde one does too
It is useful to check the manifest file, some developer list additional setup guide and options in their github readme.
Top 60% of the screen is garbage. I hate app stores… This is why I use the cli.
/get off my lawn
It’s the beauty of Flatpak, works both ways no prob
Yeah just wish it would show the verified status in the cli, that’s the only reason I still go to the website
You have 2 other options:
- Gnome Software
- Create a TUI
I like this style, reminds me of modrinth
It’s the Gnome/adwaita style. There are many apps (on flathub) which have it too.
Comparisons kills the art
Looks nice
They finally got Sopwith.
Yet, we still don’t have a proper way to mirror the parts (or the entire) repository and/or have useful offline archives of flatpaks for certain cases.
Can’t you just use github API? everything is hosted on github.
You can basically list all the package under the flathub org, git clone, and build them.
… that can be said from apt repositories. But… they’re made in a way you can mirror the entire thing offline.