The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora’s poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn’t addressed.

Flathub in Discover app on Fedora KDE:

Kinda arrogant to host their own OBS Flatpak that doesn’t work as it should and redirecting users to it when using the GUI.

And as they are a version behind in their own “Fedora Flatpaks” it now loops too:

    • @anamethatisntOPEnglish
      1•3 hours ago

      Because with the immutable distros .rpm isn’t a good match but they still want to make use of their own controls and security regarding packages. Fedora Flatpaks are built from Fedora rpms.
      This security of their own caused them to update an EOL runtime into a newer version that had regressions and caused OBS to not function properly leading to the article in the OP.
      After the article posted the Fedora flatpak maintainer and OBS has made plans to talk about the situation on Matrix, so I think it’ll all solve itself nicely in the end.

      https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flatpak#Fedora_flatpaks

    • @[email protected]English
      10•5 days ago

      Centralization is not a good thing IMO. Im glad Fedora is bothering to maintain their own repo no matter how useless we find it.

      • @GiooschiEnglish
        5•5 days ago

        What is good is users having a choice, but Fedora Flatpaks are the default choice and users have no way to change it. Many don’t even realize they are using them instead of the official ones from Flathub.

        • @anamethatisntOPEnglish
          4•4 days ago

          Users actually do have the option to change it, you can change both the order, disable their own flatpak repo and decide if you want rpm or flatpak as the default source. If you do disable their flatpak repo the warning shown in the OP disappears:

          • @GiooschiEnglish
            4•4 days ago

            TIL that Discover let’s you change it. AFAIK there’s no way in Gnome Software though

            • @anamethatisntOPEnglish
              2•4 days ago

              Ah, I haven’t looked into disabling Fedora Flatpaks in GNOME Software. A quick search only returns how to remove it all together and not sure how the GNOME Software reacts to doing that.

              WARNING - THIS WILL REMOVE ANY FLATPAKS INSTALLED FROM FEDORA FLATPAKS

              flatpak remote-delete fedora
              flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

      • @[email protected]English
        6•5 days ago

        That’s a good point but Fedora is doing it in a not so clear way. They have to tell that the packages are unofficial.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        3•5 days ago

        Honestly they should make it closer to F-droid. They already have only Foss software on it now all they need to do is implement strong privacy and security rules.