Nobara 42: SteamOS alternative updated with better driver manager, custom app store, and new Linux kernel

From the Nobara changelog: https://nobaraproject.org/category/changelog/

plasma-discover and gnome-software have both now been replaced with flatpost. Flatpost is a new in-house developed one-stop shop for flatpaks. It is able to handle installation, removal, upgrading, and permissions of flatpaks as well as flatpak repository management. You should find it provides all of the same permission toggles as flatseal. It is a simple application built on python and gtk, and is meant to be a desktop environment agnostic solution (meaning it should run in any DE). We did this because while we only support Gnome and KDE, we understand users still want to install their own environments and will do so regardless of whether or not it’s supported. If they are going to do that, again we prefer users to install flatpaks where possible for their software needs, and not all environments have a flatpak shop. For example if I’m using hyprland or labwc, now I have a shop I can use with them: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/flatpost. Users can still manually install plasma-discover or gnome-software if they prefer.

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Flatpost is enabled by default on Nobara 42, and Flatpaks are the preferred way for users to install software on Nobara, but users can still use app images or install any other app store if they like.
Is this true? Nobara has the advantage that it uses dnf as the underlying package manager, so you can install things normally. GE has even taken time previously to modify some of the rpms to apply fixes.
- From the Nobara changelog: https://nobaraproject.org/category/changelog/
  plasma-discover and gnome-software have both now been replaced with flatpost. Flatpost is a new in-house developed one-stop shop for flatpaks. It is able to handle installation, removal, upgrading, and permissions of flatpaks as well as flatpak repository management. You should find it provides all of the same permission toggles as flatseal. It is a simple application built on python and gtk, and is meant to be a desktop environment agnostic solution (meaning it should run in any DE). We did this because while we only support Gnome and KDE, we understand users still want to install their own environments and will do so regardless of whether or not it’s supported. If they are going to do that, again we prefer users to install flatpaks where possible for their software needs, and not all environments have a flatpak shop. For example if I’m using hyprland or labwc, now I have a shop I can use with them: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/flatpost. Users can still manually install plasma-discover or gnome-software if they prefer.