Other • I wonder, why is flathub support kind of poor?

Sorry if this is too off-topic, but ever since using a Raspberry Pi 5 more often I've wondered why ARM64 support on flathub.org is kind of poor. Or is it just me who has that impression? But a lot of applications which often are available through other channels for ARM64 or should be able to build for that platform quite easily, aren't available on Flathub for ARM64 for some strange reason, including very popular ones.

This lack of availability apparently includes: 1. Thunderbird (wait, really?), 2. Tor Browser (why!), 3. Discord (I guess it's best to use a safer alternative anyway, but still), OnlyOffice suite (huh), all of which are official flathub listings by the respective projects.

It's the same for the unofficial listings, many of which are Electron apps that should be easy to port like Spotify and Zoom.

I wonder why that is and if that'll change soon, especially since I assume the Linux relative ARM64 user share is higher than the Windows ARM64 share, especially when you include backend server systems.

And is there a good workaround for flathub? I heard there are various relatively fast user-space x86 and x64 emulators, but I don't think any of them are directly integrated with flatpak.

Statistics: Posted by khjthao — Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:33 pm — Replies 1 — Views 80

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