If you like Flathub, that’s fine. I like Flathub too.
But I don’t get why people so badly want to centralize everything around Flathub.
- Flathub is unprofitable. What if one day it shut downs?
- What if Flathub has a major outage? Where you going to gets apps from then?
- And as much as I hate this word, what if Flathub enshittifies?
I’m glad Fedora Flatpaks exists if for no other reason than it’s another option. One that aligned with my ideals too (FOSS, higher regard for security, etc). It’s certainly not perfect, but my overall experience has been good and issues I experienced and reported have been addressed in a relatively short amount of time.
I don’t think Fedora should compromise on its ideals (security/philosophical) because people pressure them into doing so. At the very least, I would like to see some big security improvements (no EOL runtimes, more rules for vendored dependencies) from Flathub before it becomes “default”. But I have my doubts those improvements will happen. Flathub needs to be easy with little maintenance for proprietary companies to buy-in.