How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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Where’s that Chris Pratt meme? –

I don’t know what that is and at this point I’m afraid to ask

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Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once

  • make apps that work on every distro
  • thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
  • sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
  • use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
  • make everything nice and user friendly
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