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This is the whole point of Flatpak.

You can have a stable RHEL desktop that receives few updates and Flatpak apps that are up-to-date and that update regularly.

So, Flatpak makes a distro like RHEL viable as a desktop.

The other option is Distrobox. In both cases, you are basically running an up-to-date distro for your apps and a more stable distro (RHEL) as your host.






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