Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs

Flatpak 1.11.1 is out this morning as the first development step towards the eventual Flatpak 1.12 stable release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Flatpak-1.11.1-Released

[M@yeulC]

Basically, being able to handle the Steam Linux Runtime within a Flatpak sandboxed environment.

Note that this is not the regular Steam Linux Runtime, but the Steam "Pressure Vessel" containerized runtime.

This should also allow the latest version of Proton to work OOTB, as far as I know? Though the flatpak-proton extension is pretty handy!

[fagnerln]

Amazing news!

I need to use flatpak to play csgo as it's not booting on my distro. So maybe now, I don't need to keep two steam instaled

[useless]

Amazing news!

I need to use flatpak to play csgo as it's not booting on my distro. So maybe now, I don't need to keep two steam instaled

Getting segfaults in libtcmalloc_minimal.so, aren't you?

[RealNC]

Flatpak is such a joy to use for command-line users. Instead of entering "foo" to run a program, we need to enter "flatpak run org.bar.baz.xyxxy.Foo". Much better.

/s

[fagnerln]

Getting segfaults in libtcmalloc_minimal.so, aren't you?

I'm on that messed github issue, but to be honest I didn't log the game, I just noticed that it stopped to work just after I updated the glibc. But CSGO is so frustrating, I'm having issues with trust too, from a day to another my friends started to receive red warnings about me and I play mostly with them. Probably because some update

[jacob]

Flatpak is such a joy to use for command-line users. Instead of entering "foo" to run a program, we need to enter "flatpak run org.bar.baz.xyxxy.Foo". Much better.

/s

Flatpak has never been intended for command line programs. As for GUI applications, it's IMHO objectively much easier to launch them from the menu / activities view. But if you still want to launch them from the shell for whatever reason, what's stopling you from defining an alias?

[oleid]

But if you still want to launch them from the shell for whatever reason, what's stopling you from defining an alias?

Probably not being able to rant about it.

[RealNC]

Flatpak has never been intended for command line programs. As for GUI applications, it's IMHO objectively much easier to launch them from the menu / activities view. But if you still want to launch them from the shell for whatever reason, what's stopling you from defining an alias?

Why would you ever assume there's something stopping me? Just because I can waste my time to fix an issue does not mean there is no issue, you know.

[jacob]

Why would you ever assume there's something stopping me? Just because I can waste my time to fix an issue does not mean there is no issue, you know.

You are trying to use flatpak in a scenario it was never designed for and then you complain that it's not as seamless as you would like it to be. That doesn't make it an "issue" that needs "fixing".