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Episode: Flatpaks the Nix way (nixcon2025)
Description: Nix and Flatpak are often seen as solving similar problems from different angles: one declarative and reproducible, the other sandboxed and user-friendly. But what happens when you try to make them work together? And why would you want to do it?
In this talk, I’ll present nix-flatpak (https://github.com/gmodena/nix-flatpak), an open-source project to declaratively manage Flatpak apps with Nix. This project started as a personal learning experiment to understand Nix, flakes, and module design, and grew into a practical tool to bridge the Nix and Flatpak ecosystems.
We’ll cover:
- A quick primer on Flatpaks and...