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minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOk yes it is proprietary, but at least it’s from the main source and is confirmed to work well, which reduces risk, at the cost of sandboxing. it’s a tradeoff, and I think mint did the right thing.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThe Flatpak meanwhile is transparently packaged, using the binary from the official Snap. Canonical to my knowledge took forever for convincing Spotify to support Linux. Supporting Flatpak should be easy, but whatever.
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThis isn’t about just Spotify, it’s about other apps too
Ok yes it is proprietary, but at least it’s from the main source and is confirmed to work well, which reduces risk, at the cost of sandboxing.
it’s a tradeoff, and I think mint did the right thing.
The Flatpak meanwhile is transparently packaged, using the binary from the official Snap.
Canonical to my knowledge took forever for convincing Spotify to support Linux. Supporting Flatpak should be easy, but whatever.
This isn’t about just Spotify, it’s about other apps too