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You, kind of, don't have much of a choice. There's thousands of packages and it's a ton of work. In addition, as Linux continues to get more popular, more vendors are releasing software that doesn't care to work with newer libraries, so Flatpack handles this nicely.

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I only use Linux on servers, so the kind of stuff I need is always traditional apt-get, but yeah I always assumed using it on a PC would involve tons of snap or flatpak apps where they don't want to deal with the complexities of dependencies.

Ok, I do have one spare Linux laptop in my garage that I barely use, and I'm pretty sure how ever I installed Chromium used snap.

In my experience, most of the apps, even the desktop ones, are still packaged by the distribution.

Flatpack is useful for the few ones that aren’t or for actively developed apps that get new useful features frequently.

I mostly use Linux on my laptop. I thought you server folks needed this kind of functionality—you guys have to, like, serve stuff, be visible on the network, install weird software for business needs, right? As an individual, I can crank up the firewall, trust all of the people who use my laptop (it is just me) and not install sketchy software.

I'm not a server pro, I just use some dev servers at work and have home servers. Most I did was administer the dev servers for small startups where I was mainly a SWE. So what I mean is, I've mostly only used Linux remote+headless and not on my laptop/desktop.

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