This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn’t care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub’s mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.
That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.
So it does! I didn’t know that. Admittedly, I don’t actually use that much proprietary software on Linux-based systems, so my knowledge is limited. It’d be interesting if Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve were one day distributed with Flatpak, although Blackmagic Design believes Flatpak can’t handle DaVinci Resolve’s needs.
But OBS is exactly the type of thing you’d expect to find on Flathub. What you don’t usually find is any sort of mainstream software. I can’t even get official Proton releases on Flathub.
This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn’t care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub’s mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.
That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.
There is also bitwig with an official flatpak
So it does! I didn’t know that. Admittedly, I don’t actually use that much proprietary software on Linux-based systems, so my knowledge is limited. It’d be interesting if Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve were one day distributed with Flatpak, although Blackmagic Design believes Flatpak can’t handle DaVinci Resolve’s needs.
But hey, a community-built Flatpak for Resolve exists already.
Plex desktop is also only on flathub.
OBS also is available on flatpak officially AFAIK.
But OBS is exactly the type of thing you’d expect to find on Flathub. What you don’t usually find is any sort of mainstream software. I can’t even get official Proton releases on Flathub.
It is! And OBS is awesome. But it is not proprietary.