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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).

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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] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don’t care about the packaging format so much as about either having a Qt or GTK version or even just being able to open it in my browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is Flare. I haven't used it myself because it's not official and I don't know what it will do to e.g. my backups, but just sharing in case you're interested.

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

I'll try it out and see how it works.

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

Same, trying to use and a lot of javascript errors, reopening 3 times to show up

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, the .deb only works on Ubuntu and derivates so that doesnt really matter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I didnt get your scentence. Yes I agree having a native Qt/Slint version would be cool. But the code still needs to be packaged for distros and Electron is horrible but solves like everything for them.