Yeah this seems more like pivoting away from maintaining their own version and allowing upstream to do it via flatpaks. Not really surprising and as long as they're not laying off the devs, hopefully they're pivoting them to contribute more directly to other projects.
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@Kajika I don't see it as a huge deal, Redhat and fedora seem to be moving in a direction that favors flatpaks for GUI apps anyways, and they work pretty well nowadays. If the reduced packaging effort frees up resources to do more work on the core OS or Gnome shell, I'm all for it.
Yeah me neither, I posted a comment to tell that I am just sharing the news.
I am not touching flatpaks or snaps or appimage or anything like those either. But I am wondering how the community here would think of it. In hacker news they talk a lot about 'enterprise' support and all. I guess they are more biases toward those kinds of things. I guess there's a difference between how users/business interact with software and developers.
Sharing the news here, I don't use fedora and don't care about Red Hat but I like LibreOffice.
I am not sure about the implications of this, I will probably never use an 'enterprise' distribution. Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
Not at all.
What's the open source alternative? I mean I use WPS anyway but still
I use onlyoffice. It has great Microsoft office compatibility, but it's not perfect.
what does it mean for ?
or the AppImage? https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/
I don't get all the fuse about Flatpak. I does not solve anything for FOSS. Maybe for proprietary software and still... Steam/Microsoft/Google provide packages for most of the principal distro.
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