when will this meme die ? <| sep |> Why would you want to create deb or rpm files from flatpaks ? That ' s not what I meant there . GOG used to offer their games in . deb packages before they moved to . tar . gz . Nondeb users had to extract the games from the . deb package with deb 2 targz . In a similar fashion anyone not using flatpak for whatever reason would have to resort extracting flatpaks . What would be a waste of space ? Flatpak uses runtime packs . Perhaps I ' ve confused flatpak with snaps , my bad I guess . you don ' t have to make a Games folder and move the file there , extract it , launch the binary or manually create a launcher to do soWhen it comes to GOG installers or anything that includes an installer such functionality is already provided and not obligatory , in case you ' re not interested ie a traditional package manager automatically creating shortcuts and placing files , and more specifically games , in default paths without modifying a package . I can think of a few dirty ways to fix this for games that need to be installed on userdefined directories , but how would flatpak deal with this ? It ' s a fairly small issue compared to the good stuff , granted . edit It ' s awesome to finally be able to easily download and run stuff that used to be out of the question , such as those Gnome applications that are shown in that example . looking at you Kate eyeroll