Flatpak has served us well for 10 years and succeeded in establishing a direct distribution model for app developers, independent of the underlying platform. However, development has slowed down significantly and the containers ecosystem has evolved significantly. How can we continue to meaningfully improve Flatpak? If we were to start over, what would we change?

Sebastian Wick is a GNOME member, working for Red Hat on compositors, and all kinds of desktop plumbing, including portals and flatpak.

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