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Oct 26, 2026
Allison SheridanHOST
I was not to be rewarded for my tenacity.
Allison SheridanHOST
Clicking the Flathub button returned, Flatpak remote add command not found.
Allison SheridanHOST
Well, eventually, Claude explained that this is a known issue when trying to run modern sandbox applications like Flatpaks inside older or incompatible container environments.
Allison SheridanHOST
And where have I heard that before? Actually, I just said that was Claude.
Allison SheridanHOST
That might have been Siri AI still at this point, but we'll just keep going.
Allison SheridanHOST
All right, where were we? Okay, let's see.
Allison SheridanHOST
The Snap Store didn't work.
Allison SheridanHOST
Flatpak didn't work.
HiTechLoLifeHOST
This does apparently work on Linux.
HiTechLoLifeHOST
So there's a Flatpak.
HiTechLoLifeHOST
I don't think it's on FlatHub just yet.
HiTechLoLifeHOST
Yeah.
Chris TitusHOST
So I don't like to give too much too much market share to one individual.
Chris TitusHOST
Ubuntu, I think they have a great distribution, but at the same time, I'd rather see one specific, out of these two instances of Flatpaks and Snaps, I'd rather see Flatpak take the cake and everyone start using it and just see Snaps fade away and everyone just adopt Flatpak because it's universal.
Chris TitusHOST
It's meant to be.
Chris TitusHOST
uh it's developed by gnome and it's just i think a far better product than snaps uh So let's get into what they actually are.
Chris TitusHOST
It causes a lot less conflicts, makes your system far more reliable, and you don't have to worry about little things working it up.
Chris TitusHOST
In my instance, now I think about it with VirtualBox, yeah, it's still been screwed, but that's neither here or there.
Chris TitusHOST
For the most part, Flatpaks will help solve this issue of shared dependency mess-ups that cause a lot of crashes and inconsistency or just general instability.
Chris TitusHOST
I highly recommend it.
Chris TitusHOST
Well, I mean, technically you could mix and match these things.
Chris TitusHOST
I don't think I'd recommend this is you should just build from source based on what's in Linux Mint, or install the Flatpak if you want to go that route, where Flatpak, just like using Bazaar on Bazite, we could use the store here and install any Flatpak that Bazite has here, or Cache for that matter.
Chris TitusHOST
The thing that's different about Mint and why some people say it has older software is because it's based on Ubuntu, unless you're using LMDE, which is based on Debian, but technically Ubuntu is based on Debian.
Chris TitusHOST
I digress, I digress.
Chris TitusHOST
So the stock packages, let's say you install GIMP on CacheOS and you install GIMP over here, which is just like Photoshop alternative software, right? In Linux Mint, that GIMP version will be older usually, sometimes by two years, sometimes by six months.
Chris TitusHOST
It depends on the software and the release cycles.
Chris TitusHOST
But if I needed that new version like Cache does by default, I could install the GIMP app image or Flatpak.
Chris TitusHOST
and then that would bring it to the exact same feature parity over here.
Chris TitusHOST
But I want to talk about top grade specifically because a lot of people will go install stuff from source, the AUR, many other things, whether you're on OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever it is.
Chris TitusHOST
A lot of people will install Flatpaks, AppImages.
Chris TitusHOST
What about those? What about your NeoVim? If you use NeoVim, you might have all these different plugins.
Chris TitusHOST
You have stuff from Python that you might install through a pip install.
Linus SebastianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But then after I installed OBS, I realized I had no option to select the display that I wanted to screen capture.
Linus SebastianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The solution? Use the Flatpak installer, apparently.
Linus SebastianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
OK, but where? The top result.
Chris TitusHOST
One thing I should mention here too is Flatpaks, especially on Debian and Ubuntu style spins, is always almost preferred because a lot of packages with Debian are really old.
Chris TitusHOST
So those won't have nearly the updates as your Flatpak app images and snaps would.
Luke LafreniereSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But the fact that microslop is also bad doesn't mean that we shouldn't be honest about issues or level of tinkering required with Linux.
Luke LafreniereSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My laptop, for example, running Mint and a very simple use case of basically just loading a browser hasn't required any tinkering this whole time and hasn't really had any problems.
BillHOST
And so if you're listening and you're wondering about what a flat pack is or a Debian package is, they're just different package methods for software.
BillHOST
You also hear Flatpak, you'll hear something called Snap, and then you hear Debian.
BillHOST
All you kind of need to know about that beginning is that it's a different format for getting software.
BillHOST
Flatpak is like a self-contained package that has everything that you need to run it.
BillHOST
It's made to run on almost any Linux distribution.
BillHOST
You'll hear snaps a lot, usually with like Ubuntu based.
BillHOST
It's just different package methods for software.
BillHOST
Usually if you're just getting into it, you really don't have to worry about that because your software manager will handle a lot of that for you.
Glenn HodgesHOST
"Also, when can we expect for it to come to the Zorin OS 18 software store?"
Dave PlummerHOST
As soon as Flatpak works, and I don't remember why Flatpak doesn't work.
Glenn HodgesHOST
[laughs] That's a legitimate question.
Dave PlummerHOST
There was something about whether we had too new of something or too old of something.
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