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by Jackevansevo 938 days ago
I see a lot of negativity in this thread. Personally I think flatpaks make it super easy to use a rock solid stable distribution as your base OS, and then run the latest and greatest software on top.

In years gone-by if I wanted the latest versions of software I'd have to use an unstable rolling release distro. Now I can just use Debian stable and essentially get the exact same experience.
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nani8ot 938 days ago
Agreed. Just looking at the Steam Deck and how well flatpak works as a distro independent way to install apps is great.

Flatpak supports mutliple remotes (repos), everything is open source and apps are partially sandboxed.

Locking down network permissions with Flatseal [1] is great for situations like with PolyMC, were a maintainer's gone rogue without having to worry about leaking data.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

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Ferret7446 937 days ago
Although SteamOS is Arch which is an "unstable" rolling release.

Personally I like flatpak because you don't need root (or a writable /) to install software.

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hospitalJail 938 days ago
Wait, so you can use your Nvidia GPU with Debian stable? The kernel was outdated last time I checked.

Flatpaks solve this?

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rc00 938 days ago
Debian makes newer kernels available for Stable via Backports. I believe 6.5 is currently the latest available.

There are also Nvidia flatpak packages available that will install based on the driver version installed.

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Jackevansevo 937 days ago
I never mentioned anything about Nvidia GPUs...
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