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submitted 9 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 9 months ago
[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago
[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago

First being able to use the service first-class on the desktop without registering with phone app first. Second is using native desktop technologies for the app, as Signal currently uses Electron so it is basically a website running in separate Chromium web browser without tabs.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago
[-] moreeni@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a very gross oversimplification of what Electron is.

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