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That would be totally true if every software was distributed as a flatpak and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box. That's just not reality.
Not even then. For example the biggest Linux distribution in use is Ubuntu, and it doesn't have flatpak built in. So even if a flatpak of an app is available, a user of Ubuntu would have to already understand what a flatpak is, and already know that it would make the app installable on Ubuntu, and know that flatpak itself can be installed separately, and know how to use a different install method already just to get the flatpak system onto their computer in the first place
Me fail reading.
Me forgive. Reading hard.
I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.
Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.
They don't all have that either
And yet they all have a package manager of some kind to install packages from. It doesn’t have to be Flatpak specifically
No, but all of them have different repos out of the box, which will lead to confusion when consumers can't find the one they need.