Please official Flatpak support

[Bunuffin]

Please support flatpak officially, playing the game on fedora 41 is such a pain, .net 7 is not in the repository anymore...
Unofficial flatpak takes long to update.

[Sturmfahrt]

indeed. i would like to have the flatpak updated to 1.20.3. i am having the same issue your describing. i am also using fedora 41.

[jumpityjumpjump]

I totally agree that Flatpak should be officially supported.

I had to stop playing because I suddenly encountered the prospecting pick not reporting results bug. And it has been several days now of checking Flatpak daily for the v1.20.3 to come through.

[Voldemort]

6 hours ago, jumpityjumpjump said:

I totally agree that Flatpak should be officially supported.

I had to stop playing because I suddenly encountered the prospecting pick not reporting results bug. And it has been several days now of checking Flatpak daily for the v1.20.3 to come through.

just googled what is flatpak i got in google some flat like backpacks
 

 

 

Edit : Looks like I misunderstood something, my bad. its something with linux.

Edited January 27, 2025 by Adnyeus

[Thorfinn]

It is updated, isn't it? Like 3 days ago? My son said he downloaded the Flatpack this morning. I don't know how this works, but I know that for another game I used to mod, one of the forum members maintained nightly builds. This would take a tiny fraction of the commitment, since updates are not daily.

Edited January 27, 2025 by Thorfinn

[Zippy Wonderdust]

4 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

It is updated, isn't it? Like 3 days ago? My son said he downloaded the Flatpack this morning. I don't know how this works, but I know that for another game I used to mod, one of the forum members maintained nightly builds. This would take a tiny fraction of the commitment, since updates are not daily.

The 1.20.3 update of Vintage Story became available to me today (27-Jan-2025) on Flathub, which is about par for the course.  I've noticed that it usually takes about 48 to 72 hours for whoever is maintaining it to push out an update.  It's a delay that is just long enough to be frustrating but not really long enough to be worth complaining about!

Edit to add: Flatpak has really become *the* way to distribute software on Linux these days, as it is distro-agnostic. I too wish the VS devs would either a) take the task in-house or maybe b) arrange to coordinate with whoever the current maintainer is to release an advance copy to them, say, 48 hours before the standalone version becomes available for download, so that both distribution methods can be in sync. I'm also well aware that it would be difficult to justify the extra effort for a demographic (Linux users) that likely doesn't even constitute 10% of their customer base.

Edited January 28, 2025 by Zippy Wonderdust

[Thorfinn]

It's not the number of people, but the tach-savviness of them. 

IME, Linux users are as far above Windows users as Windows users are above Mac users. On average, I mean. So why are there so few Linux people willing to create builds or flatpacks or whatever? If anything, Linux users tend to be more community-minded. Except in VS?

[Bunuffin]

If not Flatpak at least give us an AppImage, that would fix the problem with dependency hell... It's more for people that can't install stuff not in repos, or Steam Deck users, most of them have no clue how "linux be".

Please give us noob friendly way to play the game.

Edited January 28, 2025 by Bunuffin

[Zippy Wonderdust]

5 hours ago, Bunuffin said:

If not Flatpak at least give us an AppImage, that would fix the problem with dependency hell... It's more for people that can't install stuff not in repos, or Steam Deck users, most of them have no clue how "linux be".

Please give us noob friendly way to play the game.

Not just for noobs!

I've worked as a programmer/sysadmin for 37 years (eep!), mostly on the Unix side of things, and started using Linux back in the days of Yggdrasil Linux (1993).  I can be a total grognard at times yet I prefer to install flatpaks over whatever my current distro offers because it makes my life easier. They're a 1-click install on most major distros, they tend to be the latest version direct from the author, and they run in a (mostly) sandboxed environment, so I don't have to manually wrestle with dependency hell (mono/dotnet anyone?). Also, the risk of them escaping the sandbox and doing anything bad to the rest of my system is very low...

...which is my big complaint about AppImages; they're a wide open avenue for malware.

(Also, Flathub has apparently been baked into SteamOS by default for a while now.)

[Zippy Wonderdust]

14 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

It's not the number of people, but the tach-savviness of them. 

IME, Linux users are as far above Windows users as Windows users are above Mac users. On average, I mean. So why are there so few Linux people willing to create builds or flatpacks or whatever? If anything, Linux users tend to be more community-minded. Except in VS?

VS is not open source, so outsiders can't even start packaging a new version until they release it to the public. It's not so much an ability problem as it is a timing one.

[Bunuffin]

I started using linux a couple of years ago, and yeah, I do enjoy flatpaks because of the ease of use... Didn't know about that problem with Appimages, so the point remains, please officially support flatpak (for the stable version at least).