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Official vs FOSS software?
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It’s a matter of ideology.
This being said I think for you installing “official” apps via flatpak might be the best compromise. You gets apps that don’t need tinkering with and “just work” while those apps are isolated from the rest of your system via flatpak isolation.
If you are going into a period low fiddle time this might be your best bet ^
That makes sense. I still have windows installed as a backup but I'd really like to get through the program with Linux only. I've been going through the software manager first and then on to the official apps from their site if there was no options
Yah. I would strongly recommend https://flathub.org versions of “official” apps over ones you download from the developers sites.
For those people who are new to Linux it’s important to know Linux isn’t like windows. Installing applications from debs or rpms that you get from directly from developers’ sites is often the worst way to install them. Native package managers and flatpak are the ways to go.