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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, this is Flatpaks' fault because they made this twisted repository system instead of doing sane things and then it is Flathub's fault as well because they aren't opening their storage to rsync or other sane syncing methods.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Twisted repo system

Oh no, the evil repos

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even Microsoft's Winget repository is easier to deal with than Flathub.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no, it isn't. I know that from experience. It constantly goes down and is controlled by Microsoft so it favors there way of thinking.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Controller by Microsoft? You mean a GitHub repository with the entire list of packages? A simple list of yaml files that simply point to whatever the developers decided to point them at?

Definitely worse than the BS that flathub is :)