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by TingPing 8y ago
> EDIT: By packaging system I assumed we meant the same repositories, and packages. Since that is how Flatpak seems to work. Flatpak is entirely decentralized, anybody can make a custom runtime (Debian/Fedora ones exist), and anybod
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by TingPing 8y ago
Flatpak repos are GPG signed, nothing changes.
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by TingPing 8y ago
It is a work in progress. A few packages are very secure but many have lax permissions for now. There are big improvements coming like PipeWire, DConf sandboxing, etc but it will not happen over night.
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by TingPing 8y ago
Just hoping the host never breaks ABI is why we are here in the first place, solutions like that simply don't work and you need a runtime to be portable.
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by TingPing 9y ago
No, Firefox is a security sensitive project so Flathub wants Mozilla to be the official maintainer of it.
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by TingPing 9y ago
The software center has the bug, the cli tool works fine.
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by TingPing 9y ago
There has been a Firefox Flatpak for a long time: https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/ And there has been discussions about getting an official one from Mozilla.
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by TingPing 9y ago
Gtk3 literally uses the exact same rendering API as Gtk2, Cairo, which is accelerated by your Xorg driver the same as it has been for decades. None of this even matters because Firefox isn't a traditional application and renders most t
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by TingPing 10y ago
Anecdotally most people seem to have a much more stable experience with modesetting, distros like Debian have even been promoting over Intel for a while. I use Arch myself and have had no issues. Also DRI3 is a far better solution than the
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by TingPing 10y ago
Try removing the Intel DDX driver and using the default modesetting driver. It seems to be far less buggy for most people.
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by TingPing 11y ago
Own one, can confirm that OSX is unusable on a 5400rpm drive. Replacing it with any SSD makes it decent.