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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Flatpak solves the problem with targetable platform versions, you just update the manifest for your app every like 6-12 months to target the new one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, interesting. So, it's different from just statically linking against the latest driver lib every 6-12 months, because the Flatpak runtime gives you a bit of a guarantee that there won't be breaking changes in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bingo, and if the latest mesa breaks your app for example, you can target an older one until it's fixed instead of end users having to fuck around downgrading system packages