The Future of Flatpak

Interesting read. While Flatpak does work nicely for a lot of things, the downsides are real and have me almost preferring Snap for the most part. Flatpak terminal apps are annoying, the permissions thing is annoying, sound, etc...

Interesting that the creator is thinking about the next thing already.

Its more likely that its not a priority for RedHat and its harder to work on non priority projects in the era of mass layoffs or perfoffs.

> Flatpak terminal apps are annoying,

They could have been good, but they chose not to go down this route. This is one area Snap shines. Flathub rejects terminal only apps for this reason as well

Yet, there are a select few non-gui flatpaks. One I use frequently is Zola [0], a static site generator that I use because it's significantly faster in building my site with 'zola serve' than the native Alpine Linux package. All I had to do to make it convenient was aliasing flatpak run org.getzola.zola to zola.

[0]: https://flathub.org/apps/org.getzola.zola

The use case is taken by Podman/Docker