Proprietary Applications

Althought .deb packages are available for a lot of non-free applications, then they seem to always be a bit quirky, missing a dependency, errors when updating, or dropping all sorts of weird stuff onto your system.

For the latter reason, then using things like FLATPAK, AppImage, and SnapCraft can be useful as the user of those applications, as poorly-packaged non-free software will be somewhat isolated/contained from an otherwise clean system.

Here we experiment with the FlatPaks:

sudo apt-get install flatpak
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install Spotify, Discord, Zoom, Sublime Text and via flatpak:

flatpak install flathub \
  com.discordapp.Discord \
  com.slack.Slack \
  com.spotify.Client \
  com.sublimetext.three \
  us.zoom.Zoom

The applications are integrated into the FreeBSD launcher, thus, they will pop up in rofi and the XFCE4 Application Finder. Running them via CLI, then prepend the name with the flatpak run for example:

flatpak run com.spotify.Client

Which will start Spotify.

Note

MS Teams is no longer available as a flatpak, it is instead a so-called Progressive-Web-App, whatever that entails, MS guarantees us that it is to provide a better product for Linux ahems. Ahem…

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