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OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 week ago by anamethatisnt@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed.

Flathub in Discover app on Fedora KDE:

Kinda arrogant to host their own OBS Flatpak that doesn't work as it should and redirecting users to it when using the GUI.

And as they are a version behind in their own "Fedora Flatpaks" it now loops too:

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[-] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Fedora should honestly just default to Flathub and remove their own repo.

[-] notanapple@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Centralization is not a good thing IMO. Im glad Fedora is bothering to maintain their own repo no matter how useless we find it.

[-] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What is good is users having a choice, but Fedora Flatpaks are the default choice and users have no way to change it. Many don't even realize they are using them instead of the official ones from Flathub.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

It needs an actual purpose

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

There's probably more to the story as to why Fedora started their own flatpak repo in the first place. I can't imagine it was for shits and giggles. Anybody have insight into this?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

It was due to there stance on non free software. The have since weakened that stance.

[-] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Some discussion here:
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955522
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955412

Basically OBS used an EOL Runtime as the newer version had regressions causing OBS to not work properly.

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