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I dont understand the point of this - why is this any better than apt? Based off the top comment here this is meant to be much more user-friendly, but already installing on Ubuntu didnt work properly despite following Flatpak's own guide. And the install process for apps is then basically the same as apt. I dont get it

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User friendliness is a smokescreen, it is about being upstream friendly. This in that now you get the kitchen sink of dependencies on each install rather than them actually having to care about API stability (not that they did much in the past).

This because they do not want to admit that distros being slow with rolling out new releases of their software, is because of the dependency tangles that they have created for distro maintainers.

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