Ubuntu Flavors Decide to Drop Flatpak

Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. In a surprise move, Ubuntu flavors have agreed to stop shipping Flatpak, preinstalled Flatpak apps, and any plugins needed to install Flatpak apps through a GUI software tool in the default package across all eight of Ubuntu’s official flavors, starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release. Ubuntu says the decision will “improve the out-of-the-box Ubuntu experience for new users” by making it clearer what the “Ubuntu experience” is. Someone using a flavor that uses Flatpak might assume the tech gets the same level of support, bug fixes,
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