On Fri 08 Jul 2022 11:27:03 PM CDT, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 06/07/2022 09.15, Dan Čermák wrote:
Michael Pujos
writes: On 7/5/22 17:46, Dan Čermák wrote:
- aim: provide a good desktop for a ALP but don't duplicate work for maintainers (they don't want to ship rpms & containers/flatpak)
The day some essential software (such as Firefox) is only available as flatpak on Tumbleweed (whether audited or not), will be the day I seriously consider switching distro. I sort of understand why the trend is to run software into boxes into boxes, but I really dislike it.
Would you mind to elaborate why? I would like to stress out that you will not be "forced" to download Firefox from flathub. You will get the same Firefox as you get today from OBS, it will just be a flatpak and not an rpm so that it can be reused across all released distributions (actually any Linux distribution supporting flatpak).
What impact will it have on old hardware?
I fear we will need larger and more power computers, more disk space, and more bandwidth for updates, and more CPU and RAM to cope with all this.
Hi Carlos Why not try it out? I have MicroOS-Desktop GNOME running on a HP Pavilion Laptop, with google chrome, flatseal and GPU-Viewer flatpaks running. free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 11Gi 1.4Gi 7.9Gi 36Mi 2.2Gi 9.8Gi btrfs fi show / Label: none uuid: Total devices 1 FS bytes used 4.68GiB devid 1 size 232.38GiB used 7.02GiB path /dev/sda2 flatpak info com.github.tchx84.Flatseal | grep Installed Installed: 2.7 MB flatpak info io.github.arunsivaramanneo.GPUViewer | grep Installed Installed: 18.3 MB flatpak info com.google.Chrome | grep Installed Installed: 20.0 MB -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) Tumbleweed 20220706 | GNOME Shell 42.2 | 5.18.9-1-default HP Z440 | Xeon E5-2690 V3 X24 @ 2.60GHz | AMD RX550/Nvidia Quadro T400 up 1 day 0:36, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.47, 0.57