What's the deal with Flatpak? (Linux Crash Course Series)

Linux software packaging has seen some interesting changes lately, especially with the rise of the "universal package". Flatpak, one of the leading forms of the prominent universal package types has seen some confusion (and sometimes controversy) but in this video, Jay will explain the concept and show you how to manage Flatpaks with the flatpak command. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 Switch to Linux with my latest book! (Available Now!) Thinking about making the jump to Linux? This step-by-step guide will help you choose the right distribution, install Linux with confidence! Purchase your copy here: https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐧 Save up to 75% on Linux Foundation Certifications Whether you're starting a Linux career or advancing your existing skills, Linux Foundation training can help you stand out in a competitive industry. Check out the available courses and certifications, and save! https://learnlinux.link/get-certified ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Support the Channel and Get Awesome Stuff Books, discounts, shirts and more! Switching to Linux Book (New!) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux Ansible Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ansible Linux Essentials Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linux-essentials eBook Bundle ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ebook-bundle Linux Merch Shop ➜ https://merch.learnlinux.tv Linode Starter Credit ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linode Paid Assistance ➜ https://www.learnlinux.tv/request-ass... ❤️ Support the Channel Enjoyed the video? Your support keeps this channel independent! Become a Channel Member (Ad-Free & Early Access) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/join Support on Patreon ➜ https://learnlinux.link/patron ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 01:05 - Set up your own Linux server with Akamai's Connected Cloud (Sponsor) 02:19 - A brief summary of universal packages and how they help 05:02 - How Flatpaks fit in within the Linux ecosystem 06:40 - Flathub - the most popular Flatpak repository 07:17 - You can use the CLI to install Flatpaks 08:18 - Flatpaks aren't always maintained by the vendor 09:02 - Where do Flatpaks store config files? 10:02 - Why you should make sure to install the "Flatseal" Flatpak 11:17 - "User" Flatpaks vs "System" Flatpaks 12:08 - Example flatpak commands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Learn Linux TV Your source for Linux-related Fun and Learning! https://www.learnlinux.tv https://community.learnlinux.tv https://learnlinux.link/jay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Affiliate Notice Some of the links mentioned in this description are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, it helps keep the content flowing. https://www.learnlinux.tv/content-ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Use Content Responsibly Learn Linux TV shares technical content intended to teach and help you, but it comes with no warranty. The channel is not liable for any damages from its use. Always ensure you have proper permissions, follow company policies, and comply with all applicable laws while working with technology. #flatpak #DevOps #Linux