Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

I generally do not use Flatpaks (once I installed Upscayl that way, but that's all). All of my software is available exclusively as RPM packages for Fedora and Github repos.

However, I have to admit that Flatpaks make it easier for developers to ship software directly, faster, to a wide audience, and without the direct involvement of a third party like a distributor. If your software can build against one of the common Flatpak frameworks, you can ship it. That's not bad.

The contrast with distributor packages is that you either must wait until someone at each distro picks up your software and builds it, or you must build packages for every distro yourself and then push them to independent reported which others must configure prior to installing your software. And don't get me started with testing on every distro, especially testing of UI-interactive apps.

Do Flatpaks have compatibility and usability problems introduced by running "a distro in a distro"? Yes. I hope these are remediated soon.