Flatpak is not just an alternative packaging format. One of the key advantages is that it provides a predictable runtime environment that is independent from the rest of the system. Sometimes an application needs a particular version of a dependency (called dependency pinning, very common practice in development) and can’t rely on the system having the correct files. It also isolates the application from issues stemming from environment variables and the “global” filesystem.

It also gives developers greater control over packaging. Because of this isolation, they don’t have to rely on downstream packagers to manually adapt the software to the distro’s available packages (potentially introducing bugs).

One infamous example is Bottles. The project is officially distributed as flatpak, but OpenSUSE wanted to distribute it as native binaries. They had to use an outdated, broken version and caused a flood of user reports for issues that were not Bottles’ fault. More in this thread and open letter: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/pull/3583

You’d be a perfect fit as a military analyst. Those people make noncredibledefense look positively proficient.

It’s for gen-alpha computers. Makes sure all them files are yeeted, no cap.

Smog is just the developers’ workaround for overpopulation because the universe machine can’t handle that many animated entities without distance culling.

wax or pine sap

How the hell do you huff those though?

alias consent='chmod u+x' makes creating an executable very kinky.

Aaaand you’re gone. Truthfully I should’ve done this yesterday, your original comment was enough to warrant a temporary suspension. If you can’t play nice, if you can’t at least feign tolerance, you can find a different forum where your conduct is accepted.

Feel free to complain on YPTB.

this network needs opposing opinions from its “acceptable” narrative

So it’s okay for you to do it, but not for others to push back against you because they believe the expressed views to be morally wrong? I think you might be looking for an echo chamber of your own.

I’ll remind you that you’re in a public forum and should expect the public to voice their displeasure.

I also want to point out that I can see the votes on every comment. It is incredibly childish of you to downvote every dissenting reply and most of the other comments.

You’re doing the exact same thing with this public crashout about how much their happiness offends you. You’re spreading your vitriol because you want people to take your side. I’d rather surround myself with furries and femboys than the likes of you.

Queer and nonconforming people exist, they have the same right to express themselves as everyone else, and you’d better get used to it real quick.

us reasonable users

If anything, it is hate and prejudice that’s ruining the image of FOSS. If you don’t have the mental composure and maturity to at the very least ignore the people you disagree with, you can hardly call yourself “reasonable”.

I spent a solid minute trying to figure out why the second step ladder looked fucked up.

I am not very perceptive.

I remember when alpha 1.8 was released and mobs would drop enchanting XP as multiple orbs worth one point each. It was fine for cows, but killing even a moderately high level player would drop thousands of orbs and basically implode reality in a radius of several chunks. Good times.

Into another environment?

“Live and let live” obviously doesn’t work. 4chan has done so much damage to the world that I wouldn’t mind seeing their big players in gallows in the town square.

Oh, I’m afraid your tokens will be quite fungible when your friends arrive…

Criticall acclaim doesn’t make a thing automatically good. The criteria are way too arbitrary, and sometimes boils down to “a well-known publisher has done a thing” simply because it attracts more eyes and journalists have a financial interest in playing nice with those publishers.

A Hat in Time was released around the same time as Odyssey. It’s the first game of a small indie studio and it beats the living piss out of Mario in terms of gameplay and style. The only reason it wasn’t more of a breakthrough was timing and getting eclipsed by Mario’s shadow.

Good. Never challenge your beliefs.

Great games

Oh, bollocks to that. All it took was one serious competitor to Pokémon to make Nintendo shit the bed. Excepting Zelda, most of the pathologically Nintendo games are shovelware-tier trash. If the current iteration of Mario or Mario Kart were released today without the nostalgiabait and brand recognition, they’d be the laughing stock of the industry.

All Nintendo has is quirky gadgets, a closed ecosystem, and notoriety.

For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:

America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.