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submitted 1 year ago by IverCoder@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Gradience, Flatseal, Loupe Image Viewer, and Resources running on Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox 118.0.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04

Door Knocker, Collision, and Cartridges running on Ubuntu 16.04

ASHPD Demo running on Ubuntu 16.04, showing a notification through XDG portals

According to Door Knocker, almost half of the portals are unavailable on Ubuntu 16.04, compared to only one unavailable on Fedora 39 with GNOME, which means Flatpaks running here may have more limited capabilities than usual.

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I run Arch Linux (by the way) on my work laptop. One time Unity botched their game engine on Arch, so I had to rollback my whole system to keep an older version of GTK just so I could keep doing my work.

For a good 6 months, any up-to-date application had to be a Flatpak, because updating my system was off the table. Completely saved my bacon, and let me stay on top of rolling-release apps with ease.

[-] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You could set up a development environment using distrobox in an arch container and keep the downgraded packages installed in there if it happens again

[-] yum13241@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
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