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Accidents will happen.
So I decided after the car crash to setup a, what I call, hybrid system: Slackware KDE, by @… , remove some things, install grub and decide to do all applications by flatpak. Except for those KDE apps obviously.
It's probably relief setting in, but it sure feels fresh and snappy again!

Managed to finish a Debian preseed file, some things will be prompted but the system you'll get:
- non-free/firmware/contrib repos
- barest gnome
- git/distrobox/ptyxis/flatpak/flathub/gnome software plugins
- the good ext manager
Let me know how it fares, VMs and IRL
https://chrislowles.com/deb

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

Kalpa clocks in at around 930Mb for a Wayland KDE 6.3.4 session. That's neatly low. I think htop, fastfetch, git and mc should be included in the main image, as should Okular and Gwenview be (although they are available as a flatpak). The inclusion of Falkon ootb is amusing at best; I know no one who uses that browser. And Firefox is installed as a Flatpak, so why bother.
Anyway a solid, fully functional but minimal spin. As I like it 😎

EDIT: I got the file I needed by now, via the web app.
The following rant is an exercise to the reader.
I can no longer save files in Element Desktop since the last upgrade due to smth smth Flatpak / desktop portal / ... cannot access anything policy bla. I get the idea that access to everything is bad, bad access to nothing is useless.
Anyway, so I gave the web version a try...
and it is unable to decrypt many messages, takes forever to load. I've been looking at th…

I've been using Pika Backup with a google drive destination for at least a year and it's always been relatively smooth.
For the last three days, though, it's been complaining the destination is unresponsive (although I can browse it happily from commandline etc).
Some new package released three days ago that might interfere?
Update: looks like there was a flatpak-runtime org.gnome.Platform on the 17th.
Ideas anybody?

Hell yeah, finally a standalone #Threema desktop app¹ that works without an active connection to the phone! 🥳🎉
First time using a #Flatpak for me². Luckily, :nixos: #NixOS has a way to manage Flatpaks dec…

@… this is the third time this month I have to downgrade the flatpak to add more than 12 essential tabs, I use 18!
I'm #ActuallyAutistic, and this limit drives me insane!

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I see that the Linux flatpak version of the Tuta desktop programme now allows keystrokes to zoom text size.
That makes it usable!
Thanks!

I'm slowly discovering that the solution to problems with software packaged with Flatpak is to remove them and install the "other" version

one thing i'm finding annoying about bazzite is they have an rpm of clapper video player preinstalled instead of a flatpak like nearly everything else, obviously i could rpm-ostree remove it but that's missing the point lol

I solved my issue with my flatpak app Mindustry, not being able to access it!
I installed it again(even though I expected it to be already installed)
That made me gain access to it.
Oh my DataGod!
#SteamDeck #SteamDeckDesktopMode