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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Snaps have a similar deduplication mechanism, and snaps allows calling apps from their names like you would do with regular packages.

I think the reason for the second one is that while snaps are also meant to be used in servers/cli flatpak is built only with desktop GUI apps in mind.