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[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago

I personally prefer to use Flatpaks over traditional packages because of the added security, sandboxing, and overall convenience of not having to deal with dependency hell. It's especially nice being able to have proprietary applications sandboxed from the rest of my system without worrying that Steam is snooping on my 'super-important-tax-documents'.

Flatpaks are also very useful for having up-to-date packages on distros like Debian, and it's derivatives. People can still use their preferred distro without having to worry about not getting a certain update, feature, bug fix, etc, for their applications.

Being able to restrict what applications have access to is a game-changer for me. A lot of times Flatpaks, by default, have very lenient permissions, and with the use of Flatseal I can restrict it to my liking. Worried about Audacity's telemetry?? Turn network permissions off. Now, not all applications will work well (or at all) without internet connectivity, but for applications like Audacity, it works great!! Flatpaks can also be very useful for developers.

That's not to say that Flatpaks are without their fair share of issues. Are they bloated?? Yeah, and although it's not an issue for me, it may be for some people. Desktop integration is, meh. Themes, and fonts don't always integrate the best. (A while back there were issues with Flatpak's sandbox, but I won't touch on that because I need to refresh my mind on it, and it was actively being developed to fix those issues so it possibly isn't even an issue anymore.)

Overall I think Flatpaks are absolutely wonderful.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 217 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Time, and time again, they prove how piracy is literally THE only option when it comes to preserving media.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lots of people have already forked it. I think it's even backed up on the Internet Archive too. You could also check the Yuzu subreddit as well.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Citra team is the same team behind Yuzu, so yes they are both gone. It's a sad day today.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The team behind Yuzu was also the team behind Citra so unfortunately Citra is gone as well. But Citra has also been forked so source code is still available.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You should be fine. Yuzu checks the Github repo for updates which is now down. If you're still worried you could download it via Flathub and disable network access via Flatseal or terminal.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago
[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

There's a plethora of places. Github, Codeburg, Sourceforge. I'm definitely missing some others too. (There's also Gitlab but I don't really recommend Gitlab because of some recent decisions)

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I rushed this post too quickly. I forgot that the official tar file links to github. THANK YOU

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

They also have a tar.xz file for Yuzu.

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

My bad. That's correct. I rushed to get this post out ASAP, i'll edit it in. Thanks!!

[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

As of right now, both Citra and Yuzu are available via Flathub!!! Get them now if you don't have it!!!

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