I just recently began having issues with just about all the software I installed through "Software". I re-installed a few using deb files and those work but previous installations or attempts to launch from home-screen links give me this:

Steam now requires user namespaces to be enabled.

This requirement is the same as for Flatpak, which has more detailed

information available:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/User-namespace-requirements

I follow the instructions written there, but Steam and some of the others still don't work. Can someone advise or help me out? I am a noob to Linux.

New apps

Nine more apps landed this week. Most weren't on Flathub before — and two are ones I actually maintain on Flathub, now mirrored here where updates ship faster:

• AFFiNE (⭐ 70k) — Local-first workspace combining docs, whiteboards and databases; an open-source Notion/Miro alternative.
• Tabby (⭐ 73k) — A modern, highly configurable terminal emulator.
• YoutubeDownloader (⭐ 15.6k) — Download videos and playlists from YouTube (Tyrrrz).
• DBX (⭐ 8.6k) — Lightweight cross-platform database client.
• Folia (⭐ 1.1k) — Lyrics-focused music player for both online and local libraries.
• Markra (⭐ 578) — Local-first, AI-native Markdown editor.
• TradingView — "Where the world charts, chats and trades markets." I maintain this on Flathub too; the flatpark listing just lets updates land quicker.
• Longbridge Pro — Trading platform. Same story — I also maintain it on Flathub, and updates here are more immediate.
• RichEZFast — Guotai Haitong's trading platform.

Developer-approved (publish authorized by upstream)

Five apps earned the developer-approved blue shield this week — the upstream devs explicitly OK'd us distributing their binaries:

• Markra
• Yaak
• DiscordChatExporter
• YoutubeDownloader
• HiresTI

Website

• Screenshots now invalidate their cache when the upstream URL changes, so stale images no longer stick around.
• Inline commands render as proper code, fixed the AFFiNE icon, added Markra screenshots.
• License display now extracts the URL from compound LicenseRef entries so licenses link correctly.
• Can now refresh display assets (icons/screenshots) without republishing the app.

Pipeline / CI

• Decoupled CI cost from catalog size — the catalog can keep growing without publish time growing with it.
• Apps now rebuild only when their build inputs actually change.
• Closed a publish-failure gap, fixed a summary race, and slimmed the PR checks.
• check-links now treats a legacy-TLS refusal as reachable instead of flagging a broken link.

Auto-updates

The extra-data pin pipeline ran daily (Jun 28 → Jul 5), refreshing pins across Markra, DBX, GeoLibre, CC Switch, electerm, Folia, IBKR and others — still propagating to users near-instantly via Cloudflare.

Hallo zusammen, ich muss mir hier gerade mal Luft machen über eine Erfahrung mit den Flathub-Admins, die mich fassungslos zurücklässt.

Ich habe die letzten 4 Wochen an einer PyQt6-App namens MatrixWhisper gebaut (ein nativer WhatsApp-Client mit spezifischem Audio-Routing für Linux-Nutzer). Der gesamte Code ist echt, von Hand geschrieben und Open Source.

Bei der Einreichung habe ich für die Store-Beschreibung (bzw. im Issue/Forum) einen Entwurf genutzt, der sprachlich mit KI-Unterstützung verfeinert wurde (ich nutze KI-Tools wie viele andere Entwickler heutzutage auch für Texte).

Die Reaktion der Admins: Statt den echten Code im Repository zu prüfen oder mich normal anzusprechen, wurde mein Pull Request/Ticket sofort geschlossen. Schlimmer noch: Mein kompletter Forum-Account wurde instant permanent gesperrt, ohne mir auch nur eine einzige Sekunde die Chance zu geben, zu beweisen, dass hinter dem Projekt ein echter Mensch und vier Wochen echte Entwicklungsarbeit stecken.

Ich verstehe die Angst vor KI-Spam im App-Store. Aber echte, funktionierende Software komplett abzuweisen und Entwickler ohne Vorwarnung oder Dialog mundtot zu machen, zerstört die Open-Source-Kultur.

Der Code ist für jeden einsehbar auf GitHub: https://github.com/sonictriplex/MatrixWhisper Hat jemand von euch in letzter Zeit ähnliche Erfahrungen mit dieser extremen Paranoia gemacht? Wie geht man damit um, wenn Admins jede Diskussion im Keim ersticken?

I didn't find a clear tutorial about how to play blurays on Linux with VLC using MakeMKV libs.

On Linux, I installed MKV, VLC:

flatpak install com.makemkv.MakeMKV

flatpak install org.videolan.VLC

and this VLC plugins

flatpak install org.videolan.VLC.Plugin.makemkv

flatpak install org.videolan.VLC.Plugin.bdj

flatpak install org.videolan.VLC.Plugin.pause_click

then open Flatseal to give access VLC and MAKEMKV to java executable:
/usr/bin/java
it's needed for blurays that use java menus.

sources:
https://flathub.org/fr/apps/org.videolan.VLC
https://flathub.org/fr/apps/com.makemkv.MakeMKV

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who downloaded Whisp after the last update! The response to the Smart Text Expansions was fantastic, and I really appreciate the feedback and support you've shown this project.

Today I'm releasing v1.3.5, which builds directly on what we started last time. I've taken the Smart Expansion engine (::) and expanded it from just inserting data to actually manipulating your text.

A few new things you can do with the autocomplete menu now:

Select a block of text and type ::upper, ::titlecase, or ::sentencecase to instantly format it without touching your mouse.

Use ::prepend or ::append on multiple selected lines to instantly turn them into checklists or add suffixes.

I've also added new generators, so you can type ::quote for a random quote, ::random_wiki to open a random wikipedia page in the browser, or ::uuid / ::password generating random UUIDs and generate passwords.

Aside from the commands Per-Note WYSIWYG is here. You can now toggle Markdown WYSIWYG formatting individually for each note, giving you much finer control depending on what you're writing.

Finally, I've spent a lot of time polishing the GNOME integration. Injecting large blocks of text now smoothly auto-scrolls the editor, the dynamic dates now natively respect your global OS region/language settings, and the changelog has been completely rebuilt into a modern Adwaita dialog.

The update is live on Flathub right now.

Links:

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.Whisp

Source / GitHub: https://github.com/tanaybhomia/Whisp

Website / Manual: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/

Donations: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/donate.html