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  • The quoted image does not say so

    It does exactly say so. Flatpak is the only supported and official method of installation when you’re not using Ubuntu.

    As for the Fedora issue, that is a completely different thing. That is also Flatpak, so its not the package format itself the issue.

    Exactly. And the Flatpak version from Fedora was unusable.

    So where does the developers say that anything that is not their official Flatpak package is “borderline unusable”?

    They don’t. It’s just unsupported.



  • Flatpaks are great for situations where installing software is unnecessary complex or complicated.

    I have Steam installed for some games, and since this is a 32 bits application it would install a metric shit-don of 32 bit dependencies I do not use for anything else except Steam, so I use the Flatpak version.

    Or Kdenlive for video editing. Kdenlive is the only KDE software I use but when installing it, it feels like due to dependencies I also get pretty much all of the KDE desktop’s applications I do not need nor use nor want on my machine. So Flatpak it is.

    And then there is software like OBS, which is known for being borderline unusable when not using the only officially supported way to use it on Linux outside of Ubuntu – which is Flatpak.