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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes but also these people are coming over from windows and this is their first experience with linux. They should have these apps available to them so they dont think oh linux has no apps.

[–] boredsquirrel 3 points 4 months ago

Especially as many Flatpaks are already working better than Ubuntu apps. I had this with SciDAVis, where the Ubuntu version was just broken and gave me tons of troubles.

Flatpak is a blessing

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or oh linux has only sketchy unverified ones and I need to master the terminal to install official apps