• qaz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    7
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Fun fact: there used to be an Authy flatpak that just installed the snap inside

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      55 months ago

      Oh, what the fuck!?

      TBH I wouldn’t mind it that much. The whole point of flatpak is that the developer can do whatever demented satanic rituals they want inside of the sandbox, and it won’t contaminate the rest of the system.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        55 months ago

        Yo dawg, I herd you like containers so I put snap in yo flatpak, so that u can sandbox in your sandbox

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        15 months ago

        Flatpak has long had the ability to dump the contents of a snap into it, because snaps had already solved many of the build issues flatpaks were struggling with and they used similar runtimes for their sandboxing. It’s also a convenient way to convert apps over, since many apps got packaged as snaps before flatpak was really usable.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      15 months ago

      Yep. I’m selfhosting it now. Works great but selfhosting isn’t straightforward yet, still the best Authy/Google/Microsoft Authenticator drop in replacement with sync.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    05 months ago

    Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

    I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

      I just can’t… like maybe I’m too old and that’s why I still can’t wrap my head around how we went from “./configure && make & make install scripts are almost the de facto way to install software in linux” to “a sketchy install script”. We’re living interesting times at Linux

  • Possibly linux
    link
    fedilink
    English
    05 months ago

    If you really need that software couldn’t you just use the Windows version?