Recommend Flatpak over AppImage for Linux users

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    • kxra via Linux
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      That's a good idea, do you know all the features which don't work with the existing mapping? Then we can determine the folders needed to each and document in a ticket

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    • massivebox via Linux
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      Personally, I have found the Flatpak release to be suboptimal out of the box. For some reason, the developer chose to map only a few folders to the outside of the container (like ~/Documents and not many others), so you can only create the SiYuan workspace in certain directories, and some features don't work.

      After setting the application to use the host's entire FS via FlatSeal, the software works much better. I think someone needs to open a PR or issue for the Flatpak release to fix this problem, before it can be recommended.

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    • massivebox via Linux
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      The main issue, as far as I can recall, is not being able to set workspaces wherever I want. I think the only(?) allowed directory with a correct mapping on my host computer was the Documents folder, but on my machines it's synced via SeaFile, so that would create a conflict.

      I will look for some when I have time, unfortunately I'm currently running the Flatpak version with my main workspace so I can't play with it too much, someday I'll make a setup for testing. Maybe I'm just misremembering and the other issue was the only one.