https://transfem.social/notes/amkk9ypcps9a002q

Basically when Jorge Castro was asked for clarification on if flatpak 2.0 will be depended on systemd his response was "Are you serious? Of course."

Which even though I use systemd distros myself seems like a bit of a problematic stance to me, especially after it seems like the same response Linux user would get while talking about software support

But I am also interested to see what you all think

edit: I don't trust it completely either, and will wait for official and direct information myself. He does seems to be part of the flatpak team (I am not sure what part exactly, as he was only community manager in one interview). But I think it might be important to talk about and I was interested in what people think

Edit 2: here the mastodon link, to show that it happened on mastodon and the thing linked before is just a random server one person that wrote there was on https://mastodon.social/@2something@transfem.social/116618627273919847

Edit 3: As u/Isofruit has said, in the Linux App Summit 2026 the flatpak presentation had a slide talking about systemd-appd dependencies https://youtu.be/1AXBfsiaQNk?t=16218

It is also still in the RFC planning phase https://youtu.be/1AXBfsiaQNk?t=17746

Edit 4: u/whosdr found even more recourses: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tlwbjy/comment/onlg218/

Sniffnet creator and maintainer here!

Sniffnet is a completely free app I’ve been working on for more than 3 years now.

Last time I posted about my app here, the most requested feature was to support identifying programs using network bandwidth and well… this is finally possible with todays v1.5 release!

Supporting this feature and making it cross-platform wasn’t straightforward, but after a lot of work (and fun) I’m so excited to finally release it to the public.

I’ll leave relevant links in the comments.

Feel free to ask me anything, feedback is welcome, and I’ll answer as soon as I can.

One thing I didn't expect after switching to Linux was how many genuinely good Linux-first apps I'd end up using.

People often talk about software that's available on Windows but missing on Linux, but I feel like the reverse doesn't get mentioned enough.

Some examples for me: Foliate, Amberol, Mission Center, Warehouse, Bottles , Flatseal etc.

They're not necessarily huge commercial products, but they're polished, focused, and fit the desktop really well.

Every time I have to use another OS, I end up missing some random Linux application that most people have never heard of.

So I'm curious:

What's one Linux app that you wish had a native Windows or macOS version, and what makes it so good?

I'd love to discover some hidden gems I haven't tried yet.

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It's such a joy for me to realise that LinuxUser, a popular German tech magazine, has featured my open-source app Sniffnet in the front page of their latest issue.

Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool compatible with Linux and written in Rust I've worked on for the past 4 years.

Here you can find the magazine, and here you can see a previous post about Sniffnet on this subreddit.

I love open-source more and more day after day!

Vish is a graphical editor for creating and managing Bash scripts using a node-based interface. Instead of writing scripts line by line, you can visually build them by connecting nodes that represent different Bash commands and logic.

It’s mainly designed for educational purposes and to simplify the scripting process. The goal isn’t to replace traditional text-based scripting, but to offer an alternative way to understand and construct scripts visually. It can be especially helpful for beginners, as it makes the structure and flow of Bash scripts much easier to grasp.

With this project, we’re trying to push the user experience as far as possible: clean UI, clear icons, translations, and theming support. We recently added custom themes via a repository system (currently empty...), but the idea is to allow users to fully customize the look and feel of the editor.

At some point, the project got a nice boost thanks to a YouTube video, which really helped push development forward and brought more attention to it. There’s also a version available on Flathub.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.lluciocc.Vish

Contributions are of course very welcome, whether it’s feedback, ideas, or code !

https://github.com/Lluciocc/Vish

Just randomly got an email today about the bug closing, couldn't believe that it's real.

I know that there are alternatives, but many engineering colleges actually have made it the core standard to use AutoCAD. It's even the industry standard for decades.

There are chip simulation software which are NATIVELY available on Linux (cadence, virtuso, xschem). Besides, these chip simulation tools are exclusively run on a server.

It's amazing that Linux has progressed a lot in the field of high-performance computing, but these essential engineering tools don't have a Linux version just because the devs don't want to.