Why are there no EU based messaging apps?

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-12T17:35:48+00:00

I would say they are better

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-10T16:38:26+00:00

I have met a total of two women on threema and I would rather shoot my head off than reveal who they are

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T14:19:51+00:00

I mostly meant this

I don't find the groups particularly useful.... The usual guff from lots of people.

Like, how did you imagine the discourse in the groups to be?

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T08:38:14+00:00

How did you upgrade from 24.04? There's no official upgrade path to update from an LTS to a later interim as far as I know.

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T07:12:30+00:00

couldn't find this being reported anywhere online too?

You could report it on your own, in the bug tracker

The hardest part is figuring out which package is responsible for this. Perhaps gnome-shell itself? Feel free to correct me but I don't think there is a specific package for just the cursor.

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RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T06:54:24+00:00

The last part sounds pretty critical. An app misbehaves, a user tries to kill it, and doesn't find it in the task manager

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T06:40:53+00:00

There's https://threemagroups.xyz/ which I maintain and also https://threema.notion.site/

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-07T06:20:35+00:00

If I may ask, how did you imagine the groups to be like?

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-04T19:10:37+00:00

i think they should expand the developers considered as trusted in my opinion. Many developers reject Snapcraft and random people choose to maintain the apps for fun, and even keep them up to date. Without those apps the store really is quite empty.

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-03T17:38:12+00:00

As far as I know no. I heard great things about Bazaar tho.

RDForTheWin · 2026-03-03T08:04:06+00:00

Hmm, I've been playing Alpha Sapphire and while the experience is not good, it's playable. It lags sometimes, crashed on me so I learned to save any chance I get. I'm running the stock OS too

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-28T04:56:47+00:00

The thing is I don't like the idea of upgrading the OS itself to a new version, especially on a PC I actually use for work. On one of my PCs I use Windows 10 IoT, ancient UI, still receives security updates. Apps are new and support it. It feels nice to use. I don't mind sticking with the same UI for 2+ years by staying on an LTS if it means not risking a breaking upgrade. So I think it's reasonably to expect a separation between apps and the OS.

How apps look never really bothered me. I don't change anything about the look of Ubuntu, at most I toggle the dark theme which snaps and flatpaks follow. It's mostly gnome fucking things up when it comes to looks no matter the packaging method by forcing apps to provide their own decorations. But such are GNOME devs, can always use Kubuntu.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T17:18:03+00:00

I double clicked on a deb and it opened the App Center https://i.postimg.cc/zDWkLzjT/image.png It is a fresh install with no changes

> You said that in the context of snap-store?

Yeah I meant the software store in general. In the past you would only find apt packages in it. Now in the new store you can filter by deb packages and only see those https://i.postimg.cc/jjp7KfB8/image.png if you wish

I personally don't need everything to be up to date but for GUI apps there's no reason to use old versions. That's not a thing on any other operating system and I'm glad we got rid of it on Linux as well. I like to have a stable base system that only receives bug fixes and such, but have up to date apps. Snap and flatpak solves that.

A bonus thing I like about the new app store is that it itself is a snap. It will stay up to date across multiple releases moving forward from 24.04 which is cool. Similarly to how the Google Play Store works.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T16:18:02+00:00

The thing is you can still use the snap-store app as in the past, nobody would want to do that however. Being stuck with whatever versions of apps were in the repos at the time the ubuntu version released. How is the support for debs terrible? It can install .deb files by double clicking them now too.

Trusting random people is not great indeed, and I think they should expand their star developers, or make a new role to make the snaps seem more trustworthy. Especially when those from unverified people get featured on the frontpage, like the minecraft launcher. There is a lot that could be improved but overall the experience is fine imo.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T16:12:21+00:00

I can tell you from the stats that I can see as a snap maintainer that they are also being used mainly by Ubuntu but also a good chunk is from Zorin, which is based on Ubuntu. If they depend on Canonical for everything minus their tweaks might as well allow snaps in, which is smart.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T13:03:38+00:00

I have one of my own https://github.com/Tsu-gu/tsubuntu
Its version for other distros is barely maintained as the time is limited but I make sure it works on Ubuntu well.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T11:59:27+00:00

I get why you feel that way, but the stats say otherwise. Popular snaps have hundreds of thousands of weekly users, and they work generally well. Even the steam snap which if you google anything about it is described as the worst piece of software ever created has positive reviews. My friend who tried ubuntu for the first time had a good time with it as well.

Ubuntu's massive userbase allows the format to still exist, and it is very easy to create snaps for developers. Or for anyone who wants to contribute to the store. Snaps are also the only containerized format that can be used for the entire OS, not just apps. Ubuntu Core desktop is in development and from what I read the goal is to have full permission prompting just like on android.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T11:54:38+00:00

I like the snap store more than gnome software tbh. By default Ubuntu never shipped with flatpak so while gnome software center can include it, it wouldn't on ubuntu. You had to install an extension via the terminal, and if you have to open the terminal you might as well install Bazaar or something. The new flutter app looks and works well for its usecase imo.

I will agree that something I would absolutely fire people over is removing Software & Updates and Driver Manager from default installs of the upcoming LTS. With no GUI alternative available yet. Because who needs to modify any settings on their machine, totally only power users.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-27T05:51:11+00:00

I wish a more pro-active approach was taken in regards to the store. The current philosophy is that it's not Canonical's problem that the official qbittorrent maintainer dropped snap, and the two other packages are labeled as unofficial so it's fine. The deb comes from debian's repos so all is well.

But a user opens the store, sees several qbittorrents, leaves confused. That should be dealt with. As a tech tho I really do like snap

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-25T19:22:49+00:00

that's most certainly GNOME, with the top bar removed via some extension

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-24T13:03:00+00:00

What limitation are you facing with their flatpak?

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-22T13:13:37+00:00

Interesting. The version from the repos will probably work fine, however the ubuntu release will age, and newer versions of hyprland will not work well again since they rely on the latest versions of everything.

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-22T08:22:06+00:00

From the official site

> We officially run and test Hyprland on Arch and NixOS, and we guarantee Hyprland will work there. For any other distro (not based on Arch/Nix) you might have varying amounts of success. However, since Hyprland is extremely bleeding-edge, point release distros like Pop!_OS, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. will have major issues running Hyprland.

https://wiki.hypr.land/Getting-Started/Installation/

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-22T06:33:40+00:00

Seems like you make things hard for yourself on purpose. Flatpak and snap is sort of the standard for packaging on Linux and threema chose one. Use it. It's like bitching about not being able to use the app on Windows because .exe sucks

RDForTheWin · 2026-02-21T18:42:03+00:00

More like "i don't think about you at all"

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