Thanks a lot for the info, I am learning more and more about FlatPak!
I am new to Linux, I have been a Mac user for long time, and I appreciate the “self contained package” philosophy that Apple uses.
I am indeed suffering a lot for the “dependencies nightmare” that the Linux architecture seems to imply, and I have great expectations for the FlatPak system, that seems to go in the same direction as the Apple “architecture”.
From my point of view, the space on modern disks is abundant, so I am ways more in favour of having redundant resources replicated in every “application self contained package”, rather than the more “disk-space-efficient” idea of sharing the system’s components, which leads to the aforementioned dependencies nightmare.
Just to give an example with the problem I am facing at the moment, I am not able to use eq10q equalizer, and as far as I understand it is due to something of this kind (wrong version of libraries, etc.).
(If you can help, please have a look here )
I understand that someone in this thread had a bad day and out of the bad mood called me “cheap”.
The spirit of my question, and the motivation of using Flatpak, is not “a way to have support without paying”, but a way to avoid technical problems, with the “self contained” approach.
Apart from that, as someone else noticed, I live in a place where PayPal is not an option.
Through a long process, and the intermediation of a friend in another country, I recently managed to pay some money and download the 7.1 version installer.
I hope that there is enough people, here in the newsgroup, who still enjoys the collaborative spirit of the free software culture, and will be able to help me in the transition process to Linux, without being so obsessed with money.