If I install software from .deb file, do I still get the updates & upgrades when I run sudo apt update / upgrade ? Or is flatpak the way to go? I’m not very familiar with flatpak, so I’m trying to avoid, but it seems that cons are limited. I’m currently running mint cinnamon (how original, I know), and asking because i can’t seem to add mullvad-vpn stable repo. Thank you for your help,

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    Flatpak has annoyances like sometimes not following your icon theme, or just generally looking out of place because not picking up system defaults.

    It works but I avoid it. On Arch Linux, there is a huge AUR repository where users have made native packages, and thats usually much better than Flatpak. But on Ubuntu, Flatpak is the only option sometimes.

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      @1984 @Dop I find approximately 10% of the AUR packages at any given time won’t build and a given package may remain broken for many moths.

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        For me its been almost 0%. :) Very happy with it.