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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Last time I installed slack through flatpack I couldn't send any files. Not through drag-and-drop, neither through the filepicker. The latter was just empty.

Downloading files from slack also had awfully weird side-effects.

Slack doesn't have an apt repo, so I download debs and updat manually. Maybe once half-a-year.

If that's the experience I'd get on my signal through flatpack, I'd also rather be downloading manually. And I'd even compile from source rather than deal with that flatpack stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Slack is proprietary garbage with bad Linux adoption. Apps need to integrate Portals themselves, if they are used to having access to anything they will use a regular file picker which only works if they already have access to your stuff.

Signal integrated all the stuff, Pipewire, Portals.

Please try... before comparing random proprietary apps (that also probably still dont work on Wayland, which also means they are insecure by design) to general Flathub.

Just learned yesterday there are over 800 verified apps on Flathub! Made by official developers! On Distro repos this is nearly 0