Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?

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    1 year ago

    There is no need for. Flatpak as an additional format is nice to have, but I don’t want to trust 200 independent sources. I want to trust my distribution who test and bring those stuff together into a native packaging format, specialized for the distribution. I don’t want to fiddle with every Flatpak application until it gets the correct rights for my setup or try to make it look like any other native package. Flatpak does not even work with CLI programs (but could be extended to in the future).

    Flatpak is great for big and complicated programs, such as Firefox and LibreOffice. Especially if they get a lot of updates and need to be as fast as possible distributed, such as any web browser.