barthalion

It's probably not your fault.

There is one specific way in which the non-corporate open source projects typically document how their infrastructure work: not at all, and Flathub is no different.

Mistakes were made¹, and after recent maintenance, Jordan asked Infrastructure Team if there is a chance GNOME Nightly (and its younger sibling GNOME OS) could be moved somewhere with faster network and more storage.

One of the reasons Flathub is relatively fast regardless of where it’s used is CDN service provided by Fastly.

The way Flathub infrastructure works is not complicated for current trends, but there are enough moving parts to make debugging transient issues tricky.

Flathub is primarily built around GitHub, where applications manifests and infrastructure code live.

One could say that the Flathub team is working silently behind the scenes most of the time and it wouldn't be far from the truth.

Although I gave up on tuning AwesomeWM configuration years ago and switched completely to GNOME, I still spend most of my time in the terminal.

To work around restrictions surrounding redistribution and repackaging of proprietary applications, Flatpak supports storing only the URL and metadata needed for verifying file integrity in the app bundle.