What does "improved Flatpak support" mean, and how does it effect me?
I finally got around to upgrading my laptop to Fedora 25 last week, and looking at the What's new in Fedora 25 Workstation page, Flatpak support is a big point. If I don't already know all about Flatpak, is this irrelevant to my life? Does dnf now have access to Flatpak packages, or do I have to install/enable Flatpak? Why is this such a big deal? The ONLY reference to Fedora 25 on Flatpak.org says "click to download is available with" but clicking leads to a prompt to open with a text editor.
I can install Flatpak and read the man page. But before I do, I'm asking this question to illustrate a significant reason why lawyers, sales people, psychologists (just to name some of my friends' professions), and many other highly educated, but busy, people may not switch to Linux despite what they could gain from doing so: devs implement a feature and clearly seem to think it's a big deal, but barely try to tell anyone that it exists beyond a cryptic hint. (Flatpak's reputation does not precede it.)
I have a sense that there are thousands of awesome features that developers have spent innumerable hours bringing to the world which are lost to obscurity, each with nothing more than a scant comment on a patch somewhere to describe them. Like a user would read that.
As a developer, I have some sense of why Flatpak may be a big deal before I even start. Maybe, "easier, and safe installation of software from the web" could have been written somewhere? As a forward-thinking distro I would think that we could do more to help our users be proud of their choice. At least a call to "go check out Flatpak" and, importantly, why.
So I guess the real question is, can we advocate better? Fedora may never have a high production, showy release, but we should feel comfortable saying, "and one more thing..."
