Ben, FESCO: Thank you for your decision to destroy Silverblue, the best thing Fedora has done in the last 10 years.
The only thing that makes Silverblue useful -- indeed, superior -- as a desktop is the ready availability of Flatpaks for any application the user could want. Unlike old-fashioned Fedora, modifying Fedora to accept the regular Flathub is a multi-step operation, and not one that's easy for standard users. This has allowed us to finally break out of the longstanding Fedora issue of "Sorry, I can't access that app because I'm on Fedora". For the last 3 years, Silverblue has spread through the developer ecosystem because it's the best immutable desktop. For a short time I dared hope that we'd retake desktop primacy from Ubuntu! But I should have known better. If another vendor like Ubuntu or Docker were to do this kind of surprise filtering of apps, Fedora would attack it and write long blogs taking a stance on user choice and against vendors using their influence to spread vertical monopolies. But I guess it's OK if Fedora does it? If y'all want folks to use Fedora Flatpaks instead of Flathub ones, the answer is to **make more applications available** via Fedora Flatpaks. Not to restrict user choice through underhanded BS like this move. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
