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Yeah, I was thinking this as well - the only official versions are for Debian-based repositories, feels a bit misguided to me for the "privacy and only privacy" messenger that probably has an essential userbase on Linux.

The other messengers with the same amount of funding can do it and it's not a great amount of work, with the community being able to contribute to build scripts.

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Don't you find Flatpacks and snaps a little slower? The overreliance of Ubuntu 20.04 on snaps was my reason to finally ditch it for something else

Flatpaks, nope. At least nothing I could notice.

Snaps, yes definitely, but mostly when there is a UI involved.

I tend to prefer Flatpaks for apps with a UI.

Snaps would have been good for CLI apps if Canonical would just give it a rest already, and allow them to be decentralized and stop pushing them so hard as if that would make us use them.

So while I do sometimes use snap packages, I'd prefer not to.

Thanks a lot rhamzeh!

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