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Flatpak Is Not the Future
Deploying apps for the Linux desktop is hard. A major problem has historically been library compatibility. Different Linux distributions, and even different versions of the same distribution, have had incompatible libraries. Unfortunately, there hasn’t always been a culture of backwards compatibility on the Linux…
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Infrastructure & DevOpsOpen Source2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 2021 | Flatpak Is Not the Future by Thin_icE | 384 | 400 |
| Aug 21, 2023 | Flatpak is not the future (2021) by shrvtv | 108 | 161 |
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