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Include a link to the flatpak on the "Downloads" page #6

Open NintendoManiac64 opened 2 years ago

NintendoManiac64 commented 2 years ago

The flatpak is not linked no mentioned at all on the "Downloads" page; I would think that including the link in some form would be a good idea:

...and that's without even considering the advent of the Steam Deck and SteamOS 3.0 which primarily uses flatpak for the installation of 3rd party applications.

endrift commented 2 years ago

That flatpak is not official. Further, you can just search flathub if you specifically want a flatpak. SteamOS 3 includes an officially supported way to do this, so I'm not sure that the Steam Deck's existence is a good argument here.

NintendoManiac64 commented 2 years ago

TBH the thing that actually spurred on this was because I've been highly anticipating the release of Linux Mint 21 to the point that I'm going to be using the beta and putting various things through its paces in terms of bug-testing and the like, and I knew previously from my time on Windows from just a few months back that mGBA had a Linux version listed on the download page so I went there to get it only to be surprised that it doesn't have a build for Ubuntu 22.04 (which is what Mint 21 will be based on).

From there the only reason I thought to check for a flatpak was because I know Dolphin has one and that's the go-to way to get the latest beta versions of Dolphin.

endrift commented 2 years ago

The reason there's no Ubuntu 22.04 build is because Ubuntu 22.04 came out after mGBA 0.9.3, and I don't tend to go back and make new builds for old releases. There are already development builds for 22.04 and have been, as well as AppImage for a more cross-distro approach, on the bottom of the downloads page.