With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we’re going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.
Linux has, historically, been quite messy when it comes to software distribution. We have various distribution-specific packaging formats like .deb (Debian / Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora) and the list just goes on and on. Canonical also went their own way with Ubuntu for the likes of Snap, but the real winner is going to end up being Flatpak and the main Flathub store.
I just hope Valve lets us install stuff from the command line without deleting everything on each update like how it is for the Deck. Because in that case I’m just putting Fedora on it.
Flatpaks are an important step forward but they’re just not for me.