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Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we're going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

Linux has, historically, been quite messy when it comes to software distribution. We have various distribution-specific packaging formats like .deb (Debian / Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora) and the list just goes on and on. Canonical also went their own way with Ubuntu for the likes of Snap, but the real winner is going to end up being Flatpak and the main Flathub store.

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[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

As another person said, having multiple versions of dependencies is part of the draw. Also, Flatpak does allow for deduplication of dependencies when multiple applications require the same version.

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