me: I wonder how many distos package my app
me: *checks stats*
Arch: yo, your git commit that you made a week ago looks awesome!
Alpine: 1.0, woohoo!
me: Huh. Not bad.
Debian: *still ships alpha*
Ubuntu: Hey mate, your 0.2 that you wrote in a delusional fever that doesn't even work anymore? Delish.
me: Oh no.
@bleakgrey The only issue with flatpak is that it only has stable libraries. On mobian(or any pinephone distro), there is a patched GTK3 to fix a scrolling bug. But flatpak comes with its own gtk and it isnt patched of course so that all flatpak apps run like shit.
Otherwise, flatpak is very nice.
@Alexmitter @bleakgrey Yeah, I find the fact that it's super hard even for the *user* to patch libraries used by Flatpak apps to be its huge problem. For you and me it's the scrolling bug, someone else may need a quick hack to improve accessibility, someone else may want to test their patch on real apps before contributing upstream... Flatpak makes this hard for no good reason. I hope this will get better with time as power user needs get recognized and proper documentation gets written.
@Alexmitter @bleakgrey Thankfully it's not the underlying tech that makes it hard - it's just a matter of tooling and culture around it, so fortunately it does seem like it's just a matter of time and maturity.