Comment by severino
2 years ago
Yes, installing things manually is always an option (even in Ubuntu!), but I wondered if in Pop it was an option to "apt install firefox" and get your package installed the "old way", with no sandboxing, using shared libraries from the system, allowing for upgrading with "apt upgrade" the moment you decide, etc. But if PopOs repo is flatpak based as you say, I guess the answer would be no.
Yes, that is the norm on Pop. They removed snaps in the standard setup and have their own package repository. You can install stuff normally and if you don't find something you can use flatpaks.