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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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actually, MUST NOT. The moment I see "this is immutable, all things are flatpack/snap/etc.", I am out, and not because of being a dev myself
Flatpak is infinitely easier for people who don't know what they're doing, because it's sandboxed and separate from the native system. If you know what you're doing it's different though, I don't use them personally.
So we can agree that something targeted at "general user" should play nice with it, but making it a hrd requirement is too much for me