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Varia is a Brand New Download Manager for Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] farstrider@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@petsoi

"Varia supports some basic functionality you'd expect, such as resuming incomplete downloads upon relaunch, but right now doesn't support saving files outside of your default download directory. I want to change this in the future while still having a minimal set of permissions with Flatpak."
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Big game changer for me is that it doesn't support saving files outside of the default download directory. Anything to do with 'Flatpak' is of a concern to me as well.

[–] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As someone who just started using Linux not so long ago, I'm just curious, why is anything to do with Flatpak a concern?

[–] farstrider@mastodon.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@redimk

I'm an Arch user, so before I come across as disingenuous, I need to clarify that I just like to stick with 'pacman' as much as possible so that my install stays as "clean" as possible. Most of the time If I can't find something in pacman I can get it in the AUR. "Varia" isn't found in the AUR yet and in such cases I'll go to github and install it from there.

https://github.com/GCJMackenzie/Varia

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

From my perspective those things are also pretty political. E.g. Ubuntu ditched Flatpak in favor of their Snap solution. Snap has, compared to Flatpak only Ubuntu's proprietary store, where Ubuntu has full control over it. So it's also a fight about influence.

And it's breaking with traditional standards which people got used to and, as it's quite new, smaller things need still to be ironed out.

[–] farstrider@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@petsoi @redimk

As far as my understanding goes, regarding Ubuntu, is that they are going to ditch Snap completely with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Naughty Nightingale.

Canonical has decided to abandon the Snap project and remove it completely in the upcoming release of 24.04 code-named, Naughty Nightingale.

[–] frogmint 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think you're referring to an April Fools article

https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/

[–] farstrider@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago

@frogmint

I saw it on linux.org but it seems you are quite correct. Teach me to fact check properly. Thanks.