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Official vs FOSS software?
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Linux Mint (and I say this as a Linux Mint user) and its store has caused so many issues for users on one project I'm involved with and probably with another too.
Basically we don't yet support flatpak for a number of reasons and the 'community' flatpak option shown in the store comes with a bunch of broken features (if you dont want to get into flatseal etc) as well as a less then obvious way for users to upgrade versions.
For a particular application i would go what they actually support and have as an installation option.