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[mppix]

Hi Mike,
Are you suggesting that there may be a binary compatible CentOS version with proper support?
That would be awesome.
Thanks...

[mppix]

Yeah, not sure what pal666 's comment is about. Redhat seems to be moving to a Debian model, where CentOS stream is essentially Debian testing and RHEL...

[mppix]

My claim is that flatpak fixes _some_ things that you confirm in your first paragraph.

I understand what you are saying in the second paragraph....

[mppix]

This is getting tiresome. Let's agree to disagree: in your opinion, "Flatpak can only break things, it cannot fix things." In my opinion (and...

[mppix]

I'm confused. Are you trying to troll really hard? .. or did you eat a clown for breakfast?...

[mppix]

Actually, I did but started to switch to Debian with the Buster release. At the time, there was no particular reason other than interest in something...

[mppix]

Gnome certainly has a number of accessibility functions, including mouse keys, zoom, click assist, etc. Maybe you can recommend them to birdie ....

[mppix]

I think I am going to stick with Debian stable for my servers. At least they won't kill my distro in an attempt to tie me up in a shareware license with...

[mppix]

This is how you realize when you are getting old: 'the wold is evolving, please stop'.

PS. Linux permits you to use the terminal that is...

[mppix]

Nano :P...

[mppix]

+1
Not breaking apps and have them reasonably conform is likely the best that can be achieved until some uniform UI tech comes along. I am not too...

[mppix]

Not really. I did say that flatpak handles theming somewhat different with link and showing that apps may look different on flatpak vs native.
Sometimes...

[mppix]

Yawn. That Gnome vs KDE is really getting old....

[mppix]

True. However in flatpak, apps can coexist that depend on different versions of libraries... I am not sure to what degree that extends to themes but I...

[mppix]

.. so what?
Are you suggesting that Qt, GTK, ... apps cannot be styled to be compatible with other styles or different versions of themselves?...

[mppix]

Yes, of course. The CPU remains the main hardware that runs the system. However, they become more like a referee from a computation perspective and don't...

[mppix]

This is (also) needed because flatpak intentionally does not expose /usr to apps (sandbox).


From link: "The solution to this...

[mppix]

Please read the link carefully. Theming is done with flatpak extensions, which is different than theming in native apps.
My testing suggests that...

[mppix]

Early AMD exascale supercomuter reports suggests that they are doing something like infinity fabric over pcie interfaces. This may come down to a very...

[mppix]

Flatpak has desktop integration and decides what application toolkit (Electron, GTK, Qt) to use
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/d...tegratio...