Some distributions roll Snap or Flatpak support into the GUI app store. For example, I can search for Zoom in the Pop!_OS Pop Shop and find an entry. This Zoom install is brought to you by Flatpak.

Though Flatpak has multiple developers from the GNOME community, "Flatpak is the brainchild of Alexander Larsson, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat," the announcement said.

Flatpak comes from Red Hat, Endless Computers, and Collabora developers. To get Flatpak apps, you need to go to Flathub . This is the official repository of all Flatpak application packages.

On Ubuntu systems, there are three types of package managers you can use to manage your software. They are apt (or apt-get), Snaps, and Flatpaks.

Flatpak apps are also run in a sandbox by default, which isolates each app from one another to make them a bit more secure. Because of this, changes to permissions for Flatpaks can only be made by ...

Whatever your reasons, if you fall into the anti-Snap camp, former Snap advocate (who once worked with Canonical), Alan Pope, has created a tool that makes it easy to convert all of your installed ...

Ubuntu has long relied on APT and DEB packages for software management, with Snap becoming increasingly prevalent in recent releases. However, a third contender has risen to prominence in the Linux ...

Flatpak was chosen as a potential universal Linux app store as the tool can already run on virtually any Linux distribution, or even within the Windows Subsystem for Linux.