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Sorry, it isn't publicly released yet for lin/win. I'm planning to ship via Flatpak as it supports sandboxed installs and explicit permission declarations. Do you think it's the right choice?

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I think Flatpak is a good choice for most users. The main issue is that Ubuntu is perhaps still the largest Linux distro and doesn’t come with Flatpak installed by default.

One good alternative is AppImage. Works on every distro out of the box, but doesn’t have the permission system of Flatpak.

I can't say if the choice is right or wrong really, these are not easy choices. I use Arch Linux and generally install custom things from source, but I'm not necessarily your ideal market!

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