Flathub

So that was one of the apps that I've, or websites that I've made.

The other one, is called Flathub updates, which is a jarring change of direction for me.

It's much like the one I just mentioned earlier, Snap updates, where it shows new applications and updated applications in the Snap store.

This one does exactly the same thing, but for Flathub.

So the purpose of this is Surface the vibrancy of FlatHub, like what's landing in FlatHub? Are there new applications there? Are people publishing updates to applications? How can I quickly see what's going on over on FlatHub? And that's what it's for.

How easy was it to get the same data you were already getting from SnapStore from Flathub instead?

So it's not exactly the same data.

It's mostly the same.

At blip.net, if you select Linux as your operating system, you see two shiny buttons to run the installer from a GUI.

The first one says, get it on Flathub.

The second one says, get it from the Snap Store.

Below that are three tabs, Arch, Nix, and Other.

I asked Siri AI to explain the options.

I learned that Flathub is a community-driven store that's the preferred choice for non-Ubuntu distros.

SnapStore is developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.

That SnapStore option sounds dandy.

So there's a Flatpak.

I don't think it's on FlatHub just yet.

Yeah.

But there is a flat pack available.

Well, thank you for the feedback.

Kostas Plays: "Is TMOG a Flathub package?"

No, it is not.

Okay.

and what's left provides uh all of my income more or less and it provides the background for for robbins and i think i would speak for him when i say that both of us have a pretty nice life so that's uh that's the business model

I noticed that you're in Flathub.

So is that produced by you or is that a third party that just does it?

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Man.

Well, and even the stores, so like FlatHub and Snap, they don't care.

You publish it to the Edge channel or whatever.

There's a different channel that you can publish it to, and they'll just keep pumping out the software as long as you are supplying the code.

We'll talk about this because this could be absolutely massive and this probably won't stop to the entire Adobe suite because yes I said Photoshop but it's the full suite running which is huge.

We also have Flathub reverting their decision on refusing AI-generated apps or apps that have AI-generated content.

They now accept them, which is also pretty massive.

We've got Cosmic rejecting any LLM-generated submission and a bunch of other things As usual, all the sources for this episode are down in the description.

Like this is a bright future we're looking at for our operating system because no app lock-in for any other OS.

I think that's good.

Okay, now let's talk about Flathub.

They're reversing their no AI applications policy.

Oh, yeah, I've got a video coming out about this.

Did you know that Flathub unbanned AI? Apparently.

They just decided to, um... no longer have AI banned within the project.

So back in, um, back in May, I'll find the link, go to my Discord.

The reason why they did this initially was because they were getting just absolutely inundated with tons and tons of projects, and pretty much just didn't have the reviewer time to actually spend on the problem.

And understandably, they wanted to do something.

But then a bunch of problems were raised from various different avenues, and Apparently, there was someone in GNOME Circle who wanted to submit an application to GNOME Circle, and GNOME Circle bans AI, and Flathub also bans AI, and there's some drama within GNOME Circle about whether AI should be banned within GNOME Circle.

So, I'm not sure which app caused that.

I've been doing all sorts of ones.

But I've also been on the Flatpak, uh, or Flathub store, you know?

Mm.

And so I've, I've been interfacing with apps and stuff like that through, you know, the app store.