Notices by Felix Häcker (haeckerfelix@mastodon.social)

@nclm and you unmount it by dragging the "desktop icon" for the app to the trash.

From a user POV, why do I have to “unmount” the “installer” for my app to begin with??

So intuitive!

I'm wondering why people are praising the way you install apps on macOS. Sure, the idea that you can just drag and drop the app bundle into the applications folder is kinda neat.

But, IMHO, the user experience is pretty poor. You basically get no feedback. Did the copying succeed? Is it still ongoing? How do I actually start the "installed" app? Do I need to double-click the app icon? Why is the app not in my dock?

I’m excited to see the massive progress that Linux has made with the Flathub/Flatpak ecosystem over the last few years.

I don’t think there’s anything comparable for desktop systems out there. The macOS App Store and the Microsoft Store are nothing in comparison. Want to install Thunderbird or Steam? Well, tough luck. You’ll have to figure it out for yourself.

It's time for Microsoft and Apple to catch up. Not the other way around.

#Flathub #Flatpak

It's obvious to tech-savvy/experienced macOS users, but I'm surprised that this is still the default way to install stuff after all this time, and that Apple has not come up with something better.

Sorry, but the macOS App Store is a joke.

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#216 Growing Community
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#199 One More Week...
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#195 Typed Weather
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This week we released GNOME 48! 🎉

A new major release with exciting changes including notification stacking, performance improvements, an improved image viewer, a new interface font, new digital wellbeing settings, a new audio player, HDR support and much more!

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#188 Software Fixes
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What an incredible week! Shell notification grouping, Mutter triple buffering - and so much more! 🥳

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#187 Triple Buffered Notifications
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#182 Updated Crypto
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#180 Image Editing
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#174 Choosing Formats
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#173 Text Annotations
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#172 Valencia
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TIL that you can install aarch64 Flatpak apps on an x84_64 host and they will run finely, just a bit slower.

Flatpak automatically starts them with qemu under the hood.

I was not expecting that. I'm impressed.

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#153 Proudly Colorful
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#150 Multiple Layouts
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#143 Circle Updates
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#123 Infrastructure Work
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