Bazaar comes to FlatHub!

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Bazaar has made it to Flathub and I’m freakin’ stoked. In case you’ve missed it, Bazaar is one of the most disruptive and exciting things to happen to package management over the last few years. It allows you to manage your Flatpaks—namely discovery, installation, updating, and removal—with both ease and speed. But it’s a lot more than that too. It’s placing an emphasis on supporting developers through the inclusion of a “Support” button.

This is huge for the Linux desktop ecosystem for one simple reason: if we want to have best-in-class applications (especially Open Source ones), we’re gonna have to put our money where our mouth is.

Sure, we can rely on enterprise money to solve enterprise issues that also happen to benefit desktop users… but the upset among many FOSS developers comes from a genuinely understandable place. These developers put their time, effort, and talent into developing apps; and most of the time all they receive from end users is thankless support requests and scorn for the slow pace of development.

If we want a computing world worth living in, a desktop worth using, and apps worthy of our attention, we need to buckle down and support the apps we not only use—but rely on.

That’s why I’m so excited about Bazaar and why its availability on Flathub is so important. Hopefully it becomes the default in more distros and produces the intended results.

You can download Bazaar through Flathub. You can search for Bazaar in Discover or GNOME Software (or if you’re unsure, use the link in the description) and click install!

Then, in Bazaar, you can search for your favorite games or apps and manage them!