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It's trolling of the "everything new in Linux is crap" type, just check their post history. Random data loss because one uses Flatpak, seriously?

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> Random data loss because one uses Flatpak, seriously?

I wish I was joking: https://twitter.com/planner_todo/status/1492084099875586049

Ah because of a bug in an app (or it's packaging), the whole flatpak ecosystem is corrupt and causes data loss? How is that different that someone mistakingly causing an rm -rf /home in an RPM post-install script?

Try again.

So now we're blaming developers for messing up with sandboxed systems? I really hope this isn't the rhetoric you use to convince people to start packaging with Flatpak...

You're the only one assigning blame to anyone here. Not all problems need a villain.

Both of these things can be true at the same time: The library authors ultimately messed it up and could have prevented it by reading documentation better. Flatpak has a footgun and could have prevented it by better dev UX and/or structuring docs differently.

Hopefully this incident is leading to improvements in both.

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