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I am trying Pop! on an old laptop, so far I have liked it, though I am not sure flatpak is a silver bullet for FF either - I upgraded another equally ancient (circa 2010) laptop to Jammy and discovered that the Firefox snap couldn't even play videos without skipping and freezing. I thought I'd try flatpak instead, but it was nearly as bad, and eventually I blew away both and went the PPA route.

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I don’t think there are any distros that are pushing Flatpak as the ultimate solution the way Ubuntu is snaps.

Ubuntu’s aggressive approach with snaps would have been bad enough if snaps were the perfect desktop app solution. It’s a lot more frustrating considering snaps are probably the 3rd best new packaging option behind Flatpak sand appimage.

For sure, I do agree that Flatpak is better than Snap in general (and appimage works fine too, I guess its lack of a, uh, 'snappy' name for the format has kept it from getting as much mindshare...) In principle all three of them seem acceptable for apps I don't use much, or don't need maximum performance from, but for my main browser...

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