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Flatpak is not perfect, but it's getting better (thelibre.news)

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[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Flatpak: a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.

Flatpak application: an application installed via the flatpak command or through a graphical interface, such as GNOME Software or KDE Discover.

Runtime: also called platform, an integrated environment providing basic utilities needed for a Flatpak application to work.

Flatpak bundle: a single-file export format containing a Flatpak application or runtime.

From https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html#terminology

You might be thinking of AppImages, which are more of a pure file format.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Are you talking about theming?

[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I’m talking about the executable binary flatpak, which is the interface used to execute and manage applications distributed in the Flatpak bundle format.

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak