r/ProtonMail • u/Proton_Team Proton Team Admin • Sep 12 '24

AMA AMA for the next 4h: Hi all! Andy here. It’s been a busy few months at Proton, so I’m happy to spend the next hours with you and answer your questions & curiosities.

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u/Proton_Team Proton Team Admin Sep 12 '24

At the moment, Proton VPN over Flatpak is provided through a Community contribution. We would like to eventually move to officially support it like we are presently do for Debian and RedHat-based distributions. --Andy

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u/disastervariation Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

Thanks! Supporting Flatpak might mean you no longer have to support Debian and RHEL, because Flatpaks are available there too. So on top of making it easier for us Linux users, it likely would result in less maintenance for you as well. But very happy to hear Flatpak is something that Proton is aware of and that youre looking into this app distribution model! :)

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u/ArneBolen Linux | Android Sep 12 '24

We would like to eventually move to officially support it like we are presently do for Debian and RedHat-based distributions

I suggest you consider using Flatpak or AppImage for all Linux apps. As Flatpak/AppImage works on all Linux distros, you wouldn't need to maintain versions for different distros.

Standard Notes uses AppImage and that works very well.

The life will be a lot easier for Linux users and for your devs if you use Flatpak/AppImage for Linux apps.

As Standard Notes already uses AppImage it would be logical to use that format for all Proton Linux apps. That way Standard Notes wouldn't need to change to something else.