{"id":252266,"date":"2026-05-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:20:12","slug":"flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatpak is the best thing about Linux for one reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/\">Flatpak is the best thing about Linux for one reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux can be a pain, sometimes. The ever-growing list of distributions makes it so that there really isn\u2019t one pre-defined standard for packages. Many distributions somewhat try to address this, but the result is almost always mixed. Not to mention, these packages aren\u2019t cross-compatible across distributions either.<\/p>\n<p>There was a need for a universal format, and by far the best one we\u2019ve had yet is Flatpak. Yes, AppImage and Snaps exist, but both formats have a wide array of issues on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Flatpak is simpler, robust, and surprisingly configurable \u2014 assuming you have the right tool.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThe one Flatpak setting I change on every Linux machine \u2014 and why the default is wrong<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Maybe don\u2019t go with the defaults.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"setting-up-flatpak-on-a-linux-installation-is-very-easy\">\n                        Setting up Flatpak on a Linux installation is very easy<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"two-commands-and-you-rsquo-re-good-to-go\">\n            Two commands and you\u2019re good to go<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatpak is the best thing about Linux for one reason https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/flatpak-is-the-best-thing-about-linux-for-one-reason\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 06:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/flatpak-flatseal-gentoo.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-252266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252270,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266\/revisions\/252270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}