Well if there’s an application that the developer only releases a flatpak for, do I have a choice in being one of those million if there’s no easy way to compile it myself? What if I’m a newbie linuxer and cannot get all the dev tools installed?
what’s your point? if flatpak makes it easier for developers to package their software and easier for users to install it, there’s nothing wrong with it being famous
What do you currently do if a developer doesn’t package their software for other distros? Maybe they only provide an AUR package or a .deb, so someone else has to package it.
With flatpak the only difference is that a distro independent package exists, that anyone can install. It being possible to do cross-distro apps with a single package doesn’t make it any harder for distros to also package it.
Thanks, I think I understand now what you mean. I still disagree on the notion that people are forced to use flatpak and that the number is meaningless because of that. People choose to use flatpak because it solves their problem.
I’d say it’s similar to many people who use Ubuntu because of its big user base and software support. It’s still an achievement to be recognized.
Anyway, I do agree that the number itself isn’t really relevant. I’m pretty tired and maybe I’m a bit pedantic, so good night (or have a nice day, depending on your timezone).
do I have a choice in being one of those million if there’s no easy way to compile it myself?
You always have a choice. Just yesterday, I had an app’s documentation say “install brew so you can download our application and themes”. I noped right out of there and found a different application altogether.
I don’t think there’s any business entity artificially forcing the users to use it (like Firefox on Ubuntu 😉) if that’s you’re asking.
Otherwise, the only case where the user is “forced” to use flatpak would be when the software they’re looking for is not available under their distro’s repo, which happens a lot especially in point release distros.
But well, you might also be running into a bug or something that could potentially be exploited, or maybe just into a lack of documentation (which is also a bug). Either way, some devs might be interested in knowing about this.
I was running dnf update when the system was shut down, and I rebooted when the power was back. The system apparently booted normally, and I tried to complete the upgrade process, to avoid issued. Now, the “dnf update” command shows the error message I posted.
In the original post, the error was in portuguese. Now I changed system language to english and posted the entire output of dnf update in the original post, to make it more readable for the community.
yes, the last 2 mentioned commands throw the error below and won’t continue the operation:
<span style="color:#323232;">Error:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd, systemd-udev
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
I know there’s abit of a war going on about the technical merits of flatpaks which I don’t know enough about the Unix world to fully understand.
As a newer user flatpaks have been pretty great, I like having the Android like permissions system through flatseal especially for my proprietary apps like Discord.
I dunno if I’d go all in on using only flatpaks but for what it is, consider me a fan.
This is honestly why anyone and everyone should invest in at least a small UPS that can keep your PC powered for at least five minutes so in this kind of scenario you can cancel the update, shut down safely, and resume when the power is back.
Btrfs snapshots + Timeshift that is configured to run pre-update is great for this, though I cannot remember if Fedora’s layout is compatible with Timeshift’s expected configuration.
OP, If you really want to go 100% with this, something like NixOS (which is definitely an extreme investment) or an Atomic distro like Fedora Silverblue works very well for this.
As you mentioned, with Fedora the best alternatives are immutable spins. Updating means downloading a new base image, applying overlays and additional installations to it and on the next reboot you start from that image. You can configure it to keep as many previous versions as you need and boot into those directly on startup. Since you never change your current image once it’s built, you can’t break a known good system. You can only ever break your next version and in that case, just boot the previous.
I’ve created an Ansible playbook that configures a vanilla Kinoite the way I want it. No need to back up the system if I can recreate it with less than a megabyte of text files. Secrets are in my password vault, personal files are in my personal cloud and get synced to and from the laptop continuously. I would never go back to backing up system files as opposed to recreating it with a playbook. That seems so wasteful in hindsight.
The issue with those numbers is that they don’t account for people having multiple devices. My PC, Laptop, and Steam Deck all download apps from flathub, so I’m likely counted multiple times. On the other hand most people only use one device, so the actual numbers probably don’t doffer much. It’s an estimate anyway.
Edit: I’m not surprised the amount of people using flatpak/flathub increased so much. It’s my preferred method of installing proprietary software and works on any distro, even unconventional ones like NixOS or Alpine. Sandboxing continues to get better, be it isolation or usability.
I don’t have any previous knowledge of this at all, but from reading the docs, nothing you’re describing sounds wrong.
A u32 selector will match 4 bytes (u32 meaning unsigned 32bit presumably, which is 4 bytes).
It makes sense that you’d only be able to configure the matches on 4 byte intervals, because keeping them aligned may make the implementation simpler and more efficient. You can still match any set of bits this way.
Perhaps you could describe what you’re trying to match exactly and the selectors you tried.
I really appreciate this, thank you. I think I had confused myself by playing with ‘u16’ and ‘u8’ and somehow coming to the conclusion that they were matching the right side of a 32-bit string. (Which may still be true, but, I’m just masking u32s now).
This is what I ended up with, which is working the way I’d expect:
<span style="color:#323232;">tc filter add dev wlan0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 1 u32
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> match u32 0x30d6 0x0000ffff at -16
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> match u32 0xc92d1905 0xffffffff at -12 flowid 1:20
</span>
This sends Ethernet frames destined for 30:d6:c9:2d:19:05 to flow 1:20, and it doesn’t seem to match a second device I tested. So, all good! Thank you again.
What is controlling the SATA drivers? A lot of times the stuff that comes on motherboards isn’t the greatest and getting a dedicated storage controller allows you to saturate the drive much more thoroughly. Specially if they have big caches.
You didn’t mention if this is a HDD or an SDD. If it’s a HDD, you will never even reach SATA 2 speeds, although you should be able to saturate SATA 1. Realistically you might be able to push around 200MB/s on newer HDDs but that’s assuming nothing else gets in your way.
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