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  • Wow! I appreciate your thoroughness.

    After hearing you found it in a setting I went looking around again, and while I couldn’t find any official Kubuntu documentation, it does seem like Flathub has a setup guide that mentions it as a setting config.

    Also, I generally lean towards Ubuntu as most support I find online leans Debian, but curious what distro you use.




  • I just looked it up again and it seems like they require you run a command in the console to enable flatpak. I’m not sure if it’s cause they use snaps, given it’s an Ubuntu derivative. I suspect as flatpak continues to win out it’ll all tend that way.

    However, the fact this its even a discussion is kinda my point.


  • I feel like clearly everyone here is smarter than me or something.

    I’ve been running Kubuntu for a while and here is a recent anecdote and you can tell me if I’m just an idiot. I went to install an application so opened up the software store. After installing I found out it was an out of date version of the software. I went to the companies site and they recommended a flatpak install. Kubuntu doesn’t have flatpak enabled by default, so I have to lookup how to install flatpak and could then install the flatpak. However another piece of software recommends using the apt install, and another the Kubuntu store is fine. All of this is okay, but now there are three different ways I have to manage my software.

    Its fine for me, but if that’s really the case, you’ll loose the average user at using the command line to install flatpak.