Varia is a Brand New Download Manager for Linux
Varia is a Brand New Download Manager for Linux
Varia is a new, open-source download manager for Linux based on Aria2, a powerful command-line download utility. As the user interface is built with GTK 4
"Varia supports some basic functionality you'd expect, such as resuming incomplete downloads upon relaunch, but right now doesn't support saving files outside of your default download directory. I want to change this in the future while still having a minimal set of permissions with Flatpak."
giantpinkrobots on githubBig game changer for me is that it doesn't support saving files outside of the default download directory. Anything to do with 'Flatpak' is of a concern to me as well.
As someone who just started using Linux not so long ago, I'm just curious, why is anything to do with Flatpak a concern?
I'm an Arch user, so before I come across as disingenuous, I need to clarify that I just like to stick with 'pacman' as much as possible so that my install stays as "clean" as possible. Most of the time If I can't find something in pacman I can get it in the AUR. "Varia" isn't found in the AUR yet and in such cases I'll go to github and install it from there.
From my perspective those things are also pretty political. E.g. Ubuntu ditched Flatpak in favor of their Snap solution. Snap has, compared to Flatpak only Ubuntu's proprietary store, where Ubuntu has full control over it. So it's also a fight about influence.
And it's breaking with traditional standards which people got used to and, as it's quite new, smaller things need still to be ironed out.