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Never heard of that, I hope accessibility on Wayland improves.

Neal Gompa mentioned that Flatpaks dont have the permission holes to allow screen readers? Thats crazy and may be possible to fix with a global override.

The idea of booting my entire operating system from a container created on Github's infrastructure is just...it scares me.

Same here. I think it would be nice to create 2 or so base images on an individual host like Codeberg, but I am completely new to all that container stuff.

I wonder if Sourcehut does container registries...I know people praise their CI.

There are so many alternatives. I even have access to a selfhosted Gitea instance which may also be fine.

I know Tor uses Gitlab.

At the surface, yes. But I wonder about the stuff in the background, like decentralized encrypted backups, maybe not traceable or something.

Interesting, will add that blog to my Feeds :D

I'm thinking about Fedora including the build in their own repositories.

For sure it needs to, to be a usable product.

I only see it as a platform which needs to be tweaked to be usable. Currently doing a bit of work, upstreaming some secureblue things (btw the admin blocked be because they... dont like annoying questions?).

Matrix is also horrible for Dev work. People dont use threads so they just spam stuff in a single chat and it just bad...

Also, these change processes are damn slow, but hey, thats fine I guess?

it's a crucial part of my workflow because I convert so much media.

I want to start doing some videos, no idea why OBS just has h264 hardware? I mean it doesnt matter but why no VP9? AV1 will come in 30.1 you know when that is stable?

I would just invoke the ffmpeg from some Flatpak, freedesktop.org runtime may have it. Maybe with some flatpak-spawn it could even have access everywhere?

Do you know what flatpaks (that are not VLC) have ffmpeg as a binary included?

I need to add a better app to this guide since I dont use VLC anymore.

But Nautilus works really well as a Flatpak. It even seems faster than non-Flatpak Nautilus

Interesting, I need to try full-Flatpak Kinoite in a VM. I think Flatpak Firefox is also faster, but I need to benchmark that again.

I did quite a big benchmark including Brave, Firefox Tarball (firefox and firefox-bin), Fedora Firefox, Librewolf, Torbrowser, MullvadBrowser.

Need to do that again. I also compiled FF myself for some time to use it on secureblue with hardened malloc. Funny enough, Fedora FF allows to replace the memory allocator now that I opened an issue, but it is very questionable if hardened_malloc is more secure, and if LD_PRELOAD is a secure way to do that.

Toolbox is the right way to solve the problem. It's using a real programming language (Go) instead of bash, it supports a small set of important container images, and those container images are only provided from quay.io, Red Hat's own infrastructure, instead of Docker Hub.

I agree on these points. Is it considerably faster? Because bash is slow as hell, I need to start learning some real language as my bash scripts start getting a pain. (Especially the Arkenfox (FF and TB) scripts need to get a big overhaul and I am still bery unhappy with them).

I use Toolbox for Signal and Steam because I don't want to use Unverified Flatpaks.

Well I hope you use an Ubuntu container because I bet these packages are also not "verified" on Arch ;)

I use 90% verified and just have the verified subset repo around to check if an app is. If it is, I get 2 installation repos.

But these both apps are also Electron apps and supposedly containers dont restrict user namespace creation, so they are the best way to run these apps. According to uBlue devs, Firefox too.

Or Debian containers.

You could use Debian Testing which is rolling afaik.

Fedora rawhide is too unstable, OpenSUSE has some strange package issues (I use QGis and RStudio).

RStudio uses the system package manager to add dependencies, nice concept but annoying on atomic. There is this guy that just builds the entire R libraries as RPMs on COPR, he had to reduce the repos priorities because it prevented all the other projects from building their stuff.

Does Arch have Rstudio stuff? I really think they should just abandon that concept and build the libraries themselves, and install them to the app directory...

Same for QGis but that needs pip.

It really makes me feel at home on Fedora.

Ironic. But I really wonder what to use. Basically its

• Debian Testing
• OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
• Arch
• ... ?

These damn package names. Or maybe dnf5 could solve this? I really like Fedora packages, they are often very good.

Also when it comes to deduplicating libraries, I dont need a separate distro in a container, I need a clone of my current system and just a few packages and their specific dependencies on top. Not sure how this could work, especially in RAM, there is a thread somewhere on Discuss.