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I dunno. I had my doubts for the longest time but recently I've started, little by little, placing my bets on Flatpak. Snap can go to hell, for reasons exhaustively discussed here and elsewhere, but Flatpak is reasonably solid, open and performant technology that fits the problem it's trying to solve. I wouldn't mind if it takes over the distribution of big, GUI desktop apps on linux.

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The fact that Valve ships the Steam Deck with a read only root managed by ostree and user apps installable via Flatpak to me shows the direction of future Linux desktop, and I welcome it wholeheartedly. I am done with distro managed packages for desktop apps, custom patches and the impossibility to ship closed source software on Linux because it's a mess.

Flatpak in my book rocks, and it's ahead of macOS DMG files and light years ahead of the Windows .exe downloaded from the Internet strategy.

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