Something about flatpak seems a little hinky to me -- Ubuntu is getting too heavily into data collection lately, and flatpak seems part of it, though I haven't researched it fully; too much to do and Ubuntu avoidance is easy.
Best I can tell, appimage is a little more pristine, at least for now. Which is fortunate -- just found and installed the appimage for IPTVnator, which is likeHypnotix but written in electron. Appimage was a good way to try it out. When I liked it I d/led the .deb which, mirabile dictu, installed uneventfully (so I can now watch Iran TV about the helicopter crash there that seems to have killed high government officials there today; I need a Farsi mental appimage to understand it, though).
Here, if it's of interest to anyone: https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases
To populate it: https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u
Of course if you get an appimage you need to set it as executable in its properties before you can run it.
As I said, it seems ceteris paribus better than flatpak, though I could be wrong.
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On Sunday 19 May 2024 18.21:47 dep via tde-users wrote:
As I said, it seems ceteris paribus better than flatpak, though I could be wrong.
I confess having no knowledge of the internas of all these. I tend to prefer installing from teh repositories, but Appimages and Flatpak solve some dependency problems, and I have the (wrong?) feeling teht installing them does not "polute" my distribution.
I rely on OpenBoard for example at work. These is (was?) a package for Ubuntu, that would not install on Debian (as often). They don't have appimage, but Flatpak works great. The Prusa Slicer commes as Appimage and works too.
So I'm a little like Japanese with Bhudism and Shinto: I use one or the other depending on my needs at the moment...
There's a third sort of such things, snap, but it requires systemd, seems, and I'm not running it so...
On Sun, 19 May 2024 16:21:47 +0000 dep via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
Something about flatpak seems a little hinky to me -- Ubuntu is getting too heavily into data collection lately, and flatpak seems part of it, though I haven't researched it fully; too much to do and Ubuntu avoidance is easy.
I suspect it's actually snaps rather than flatpak you're thinking of. Snaps apparently live in a single central repository under Ubuntu's control, and have additional issues on top of the integration problems you always see with these "universal" packaging solutions.
(I don't run any form of Ubuntu myself, but I read a lot of complaints about it on Lemmy.)
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On 5/19/24 15:29, E. Liddell via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
On Sun, 19 May 2024 16:21:47 +0000 dep via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
Something about flatpak seems a little hinky to me -- Ubuntu is getting too heavily into data collection lately, and flatpak seems part of it, though I haven't researched it fully; too much to do and Ubuntu avoidance is easy.
I suspect it's actually snaps rather than flatpak you're thinking of. Snaps apparently live in a single central repository under Ubuntu's control, and have additional issues on top of the integration problems you always see with these "universal" packaging solutions.
(I don't run any form of Ubuntu myself, but I read a lot of complaints about it on Lemmy.)
You are entirely right, and I was entirely wrong. It is snap, not flat that is the suspicious one under Ubuntu's influence. So ignore what I said except the part about IPTVnator (or other apps that do the same or much the same) being amazing and useful.
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