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Fail to see how this is the "answer" for the Linux desktop. "Compatibility" is the third keyword yet, no Libreoffice, Chromium, Flatpak and a barely up-to-date
by mrbn100ful 3y ago
Fail to see how this is the "answer" for the Linux desktop. "Compatibility" is the third keyword yet, no Libreoffice, Chromium, Flatpak and a barely up-to-date Firefox ESR 91.
Also for the main page, "Security updates are nearly instant" fell like a big lie.
I also noted that the KDE GUI doesn't start in Gnome Box, but does in Virtualbox.
- awilfox 3y agoLibreOffice is a known pain point we are trying to resolve. Flatpak is on my list of things to package. Firefox and Thunderbird 102 need Rust toolchain updates that are queued but not yet live. Chromium is a non-starter: it doesn't support musl libc, and even if it did, it doesn't support 3 of our 5 Tier 1 architectures. It also has significant issues regarding reliability, security, portability, and a rapid release schedule that would severely drain our presently limited resources testing all of the patch sets we would need to ship with it to make it work for us. But, when we have Flatpak available, you can always <s>punish yourself with</s> run Chromium via that, I suppose. I'll look in to Gnome Boxes; thanks for the report.