I wrote the initial title. I first saw this news on Reddit with a title like "Linus slams Hellwig..." and I really don't like titles like that.
So I opted for a direct quote that was able to fit in the title bar that gave a decent summary of the situation. I do agree it's still a bit provocative, but at least it's not me putting the spin on it.
Fedora Flatpak exists to match Fedora’s philosophy on FOSS, patented software, and security.
Everything in Fedora must be FOSS and free of legal issues, like codecs. Fedora also takes security seriously, so all their Flatpaks use dependencies all from Fedora repos.
Fedora never called it official. It lacked the verification tick that official Flathub packages get and right under the install button in Gnome Software, the install source says “Fedora Linux”.
Flathub isn’t quite default, but it’s an option in the setup screen. It’s also the lowest priority.
Provided they fix the issues they outlined, yes.
Fedora aims for FOSS, software unencumbered by patents, and security.
Flathub explicitly allows proprietary and patented software.
And since they want upstream apps to publish their apps and not scare them away, security isn't as strong. Apps are allowed to use EOL runtimes and apps roll their own vendored dependencies. Fedora Flatpaks solve this problem by building all their flatpaks from their distro packages.
That uses the experimental of the color management protocol. Now that the protocol is stable, it will be exposed by default. And hopefully we shouldn't need to install additional software, set environmental variables, or pass command line flags.
It means it can play HDR videos in Wayland environments that support the protocol (Gnome, Plasma) among other color improvements this protocol brings.
Videos may use different color spaces. So it’s good to tell the composition which colorspace you’re using so you don’t end up losing detail and distorting colors when displaying them.
(I’m also by no means a color expert, might have gotten some details wrong).
Has anyone edited the tweet to change Nate’s picture to Trump?
OBS continued using the EOL runtime because of Qt regressions introduced in the updated KDE runtime. The OBS team decided the security risk of sticking to the EOL runtime was small, so they didn't update.
But that still does mean that users were no longer receiving security updates. Ideally, OBS should have moved to the standard Freedesktop runtime and vendored in the older Qt dependency. That way, the they would still be receiving security updates for everything in the Freedesktop runtime. Then once the regressions were fixed, they could move to the updated KDE runtime and remove the vendored Qt dependency.
Overall, the risk OBS had was small. But it demonstrates a larger issue with Flathub, which is that they don't take security as seriously as Fedora. There are hundreds of flatpaks in Flathub that haven't been updated in years, using EOL runtimes and vendored dependencies that get no updates.
Firefox does not support web apps. But Linux Mint wanted web apps and they molded Firefox into kinda supporting it. But it's not perfect.
Personally, I would recommend either using Chromium for web apps or installing the Element desktop app.