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> 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

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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

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