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Thank you. This was the answer I was looking for. It's sad that the process to get apps running is fairly convoluted. I hope that things will get easier in the future though I have no clue how hard it would be for them to transition to wayland or improve mir for running other app types. I think flatpak would be huge for improving the usability though since it would give them access to all of flathub.