I get a message when trying to update flatpak
$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Info: org.fedoraproject.Platform is end-of-life, with reason: Fedora 31 runtime is no longer supported.
Nothing to do.
$
I do not think a novice user of Linux is going to find it simple to use flatpaks. The runtime thing is still
way over my head, and all the different hubs ( two ? ), and how to know which hub is better, flathub or
Fedorahub. ( I hear somebody out there joking..... P***hub, silly )
While I have your attention,
I spent about 5 hours playing with appimages, and posted something
about that here a few days ago. I have not yet dived deep into the topic, but my initial experience is that
appimages are not for newbies, in their present form. It was suggested to me to discuss such things
elsewhere on the community blog. I attempted that, but it has been 3 days now, and my post there
is still pending. Another similar post I made in the other suggested Fedora forum, did not reach
my intended audience. So I will have to think of some other way to express my ideas or rants. Once I feel
confident, in the topic I want to discuss, maybe I will make a YouTube video. I am not there yet.
Today's update of Rawhide, went smoothly. A tiny change to the kernel. It is worth noting, that since
the kernel is allegedly hovering around 27.8 million lines of code, that if one line gets changed, the user
is probably not going to notice much difference, unless that particular thing was something they were
hoping would improve. Much of the changes appear geared toward future hardware that has not
even hit the market yet. Meaning, one of many reasons a novice Linux user should not use Rawhide, is
that the changes that might break their system are unlikely to give them any kind of noticeable improvement
in their own user experience. Some other updates today were that packages like dracut and criu were rebuilt
from fc33 to fc34. Many packages at this early stage in fc34 development, are going to be identical
to what is in the upcoming beta release of Fedora 33, for example, the package or client "gnumeric," is still fc33.
I do not know yet what those package differences are or what all that entails, but it is on my list of things to learn.
My current vague grasp of the topic is that the package is compiled ( or recompiled ? ), with a newer version of the newer
version of the tools that are used to build the packages for fc34. One important characteric of Rawhide is
that many of the most important system components are git-versions of that package,
and the git-version was only updated from one that might have been a few days stale. A novice would never have
any idea what any of that means, but I am trying to self-teach myself. And on a similar note, many important
system files are "rc candidates" such as mesa and the kernel. I assume many other packages are identical
to what is going to be in Fedora 33 Beta. For example,
x.org files and at least half the dependencies or
files that other packages require to run, are still fc33, at this early stage in fc34 history. All that is just my
own observation, and irrelevant. I am just trying to learn the correct way to express things about
Fedora and Rawhide. Another reason to discourage a novice from using Rawhide, is that much of the files
that are often updated are files related to writing software or programming such as python, perl, rust, etc. Most
people do not need the newer versions of those packages. I do plan to do an install of Fedora 33 on hardware in
December, and live in that for a while. But I have not yet had a reason for myself to stop using Rawhide.
One of the reasons that I stopped distro-hopping a year ago, is that the only thing I would gain from using some
other distro like SparkyLinux, LInux Mint, Netrunner, or PopOS!, is just to see how those other distros modify or customize
the theming of their packages, some of which seem to only just get renamed ( or rebadged ?? ) in those other lesser distros.
And I always use my own wallpapers, so the tiny one-man distros that mainly just have fancy wallpapers, probably
Good Day from Arcola, Texas USA.
David Locklear
novice user of Rawhide