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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] RedBauble 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funny 3 out of 12 are minecraft

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

Flatpak is what allowed me to distro hop while still using some great apps that were not in the distro repos

[–] dasgewisseextra 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice but weird that Lutris and Heroic are classified as a game unlike Steam which correctly is a game launcher

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

A lot of these appear to be game launchers to be honest

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Flathub is almost the perfect distribution system for software on Linux. The only thing it's missing is a billing system. If it had that, it would probably attract more game developers to make their games available as Flatpaks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Paid apps are in the works right?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

This would be really great.

Commercial applications and a donations framework.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ohh, for ez donations too!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Good to see Space Cadet Pinball still there!

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

how can I get my emulators to see the same files on Fedora after a reboot? I use Syncthing to keep my saves on a few machines, but after each reboot I have to go in and set the folders up because the user folder path has changed.

Otherwise flatpaks seem perfectly chill to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There may be some fiddling you can do with Flatseal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I'm in love