This seems to me to be a similar discussion about using docker that is on the developers group:
Personally I have no interest in using either and have made sure I don't have flatpak on my computer. Download and install is only a few mouse clicks on Linux Mint and no extra overhead of having Flatpak or Docker.
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Peter Ulvestad
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