I get it, EOS don’t include the pamac package manager by default, and neither do I want to rely on it. But I would like Flatpak just to test a few packages in a sandboxed environment.
There is a community Flatpak and some in Extras in the AUR. Which do you recommend?
The Discovery blog Flatpak was useful. When they say Flatpak integrates with Gnome, how does that change the experience?
What has been your experience with Flatpak on Gnome?
Michael
Where do they say that exactly?
You can install/remove/update flatpaks via gnome software. Gnome(and a bunch of other DEs/WMs) provide an integrated version of xdg-desktop-portal.
Other than that, flatpaks work everywhere. Even on gnome. 
Be really careful with flatpak “sandboxing” The applications themselves define how much sandboxing is applied. Many of them have wide access to system resources. This is made worse by the fact that flatpak controls aren’t very granular so you often have to give flatpaks access to more of the system than they really need.
flatseal is a simple GUI tool that lets you review and modify a flatpaks permissions.
On flatpak.org
Let’s see how much liberties flatpak takes 
Thank you @dalto Your advice has been very helpful and proved very accurate.
Michael
Sometimes the flatpak version of an app works differently than the Arch Linux repo version.
Case in point. I store all my music and videos on my enos Server, and use minidlna to stream them.
On the client side, I use VLC as my DLNA client. I have 1014 mp3 and that is too many for the Arch repo VLC to handle. On the other hand, the flatpak version of VLC handles that many items perfectly as expected right out of the box.
Also if one changes fonts, themes, icon themes, etc all the time, the Flatpak version’s theme is what videolan (the entity that develops VLC) sets it to. With VLC flatpak it is pretty much adwaita and light or dark.
So there are advantages and trade offs to both.
Pudge
Do you know why?
Nope, and as easy as the fix is, and as lazy as I am, I haven’t bothered looking into it.
I use KDE Plasma which EnOS installs vlc as default. So I simply remove the Arch repo version, and install the flatapak version. Easy, peasy.
Pudge
Here is a flatpak cheat sheet from Fedora
Pudge
Thankyou @Pudge Really nice gesture.
Michael
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