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I recently switched to Debian because I wanted a rock solid plain Gnome environment for my daily driver / work laptop. The main downside is that even Debian testing is a bit more conservative with updates than I would like for certain applications. Normally I would use and recommend Flatpak, but there are a few edge cases where I need to use the Debian package, which leads me to today’s post.