desktop was forgotten as an app platform in the last 15 years, it's pathetic 

 very true, we need to move away from web apps, to native desktop, with encryption as identity 

 I've got some buddies in #GitCitadel working on .deb build processes so we can distribute our apps as Linux desktop apps.

The Age of the Desktop will return. 

 Wouldn't it be better to ship as flat packs?  

 Probably depends on the use case.  I'm still fairly new to this.

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of flatpaks?

FWIW, I've just switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and all the apps I've installed were debs or snaps. 

 Better sandboxing than native installs. 

 Desktop Linux is more than Ubuntu.

Flatpak can work everywhere.

 

 Has anyone tried one of these Android-apps-on-Linux programs? (perhaps a temporary workaround for Nostr desktop adaptation?)

https://bytebitebit.com/operating-system/linux/how-to-run-android-apps-on-linux/ 

 I've used Waydroid a fair bit, especially on my surface tablet. Has worked great for me so far. 

 Gossip? 

 going to try it. 

 Gossip? 

 Gossip is great but not a signer. 

 There is the Keystache project which also got an OpenSats grant. But the repo has been inactive for the last 2 weeks.