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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed, much prefer running apps via nix. Although I did have to fall back to flatpak install the bottles, but that is a bit of a special case where the software explicitly requires itself to be sandboxed or behaves less as expected otherwise.