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  • There’s a video on YouTube where Jorge Castro (Ublue Dev) talks about how it works. He also posted this recently.

    But in short, it’s like Flathub for CLI apps: apps get publicly built, community audited, signed, and distributed. When installed, they remain isolated from your base OS, they can’t break your system.

    Similar in some way to F-DROID too.

    What’s really cool about flatpak and brew is that you can see the package build history in Github, and the community is very big because every dev on Mac is using it.

    The amount of packages available is insane.

    I use:

    • GhostScript
    • LittleCMS
    • ImageMagick
    • Pandoc

    All work like if they were native packages. It’s great.